Another Flower Aspect Photo by Colin Rowan and his Retired Aussies Website

Common Name Holme's Sun Orchid - Blue Star Sun Orchid

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

Found in heathlands, woodlands and open forests, usually growing in seasonally wet areas at elevations of sea level to 200 meters in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial orchid with a single leaf that blooms in the spring in Australia on an erect, to 16" [40 cm] tall, 2 to 10 flowered inflorescence usually with 2 sterile bracts .

Synonyms Thelymitra pauciflora var. holmesii (Nicholls) Nicholls 1944

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Australia Nicholls 1969 as T pauciflora var holmesii drawing fide; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 photo good

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