Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asparagales Link
Family
Orchidaceae Juss.
Genus
Thelymitra J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Thelymitra hatchii L.B.Moore, New Zealand J. Bot. 6: 477 (1969)
 Description

Plant at fl. to c. 40 cm. tall. Lf 7–15 mm. wide, channelled and ± keeled, forming rather well-defined V in T.S. Infl. to c. 6-fld. Per. c. 15 mm. long, between pink and blue, without stripes or spots. Sepals, petals and labellum subsimilar, elliptic, sepals more acute. Column-arms terete to plano-convex in T.S.; cilia ∞, us. very pale yellow, arising from sides, back and top of arm, mostly standing erect and above post-anther lobe; post-anther lobe tall, overtopping anther at least at sides, erect, truncate sts quite obliquely forming a deep cleft at back, us. dark red towards top, margin ± yellow, ± denticulate but not thickened or involute, often ending in front in two sharp points.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Phenology

Flowering: Nov.–Dec.

 Bibliography
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]
Moore, L.B. 1968: Taxonomic notes on New Zealand Monocotyledons. New Zealand Journal of Botany 6: 473–492.
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.