Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asparagales Link
Family
Orchidaceae Juss.
Genus
Thelymitra J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Thelymitra carnea R.Br., Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holland. 314 (1810)
Synonymy:
  • = Thelymitra imberbis Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 244 (1853)
  • ≡ Thelymitra carnea var. imberbis (Hook.f.) Rupp & Hatch, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales 70: 59 (1946)
 Description

Plant at fl. 15–30 cm. tall, often reddish. Lf narrow-linear, almost terete to shallowly channelled. Infl. 1–3–(6) -fld. Per. c. 8–10 mm. long, from cream to pink, without stripes or spots. Sepals and petals alike, broadly oblong. Labellum often slightly smaller. Column-arms ± ovate, thick and fleshy, marginally crenate but without fringes or cilia; post-anther lobe almost as high as anther, erect, margins fleshy, unevenly thickened to almost cucullate, bright yellow.

[From: Moore and Edgar (1970) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 2.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
 Phenology

Flowering: Sep.–Nov.

 Bibliography
Brown, R. 1810: Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van-Diemen. Johnson, London.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Barkla J.W.; Courtney, S.P.; Champion, P.D.; Perrie, L.R.; Beadel, S.N.; Ford, K.A.; Breitwieser, I.; Schönberger, I.; Hindmarsh-Walls, R.; Heenan, P.B.; Ladley, K. 2018: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017. New Zealand Threat Classification Series. No. 22. [Not Threatened]
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Champion, P.D.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Norton, D.A.; Hitchmough, R.A. 2013: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 3. Department of Conservation, Wellington. [Not Threatened]
Hooker, J.D. 1852–1853 ("1853"): The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part I. Flowering plants. Lovell Reeve, London.
Parsons, M.J.; Douglass, P.; Macmillan, B.H. 1998: Current Names List for wild Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons and Monocotyledons (except Grasses) of New Zealand as used in Herbarium CHR. Version 1, to 31 Dec 1995. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln, Canterbury, New Zealand.
Rupp, H.M.R.; Hatch, E. D. 1946: Relation of the Orchid Flora of Australia to that of New Zealand. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 70: 53–61.