Small White Sun-orchid: Leucistic Flower?

Small White Sun-orchid (Thelymitra albiflora)

Class:

Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida)

Order:

Asparagus (Asparagales)

Family:

Orchid (Orchidaceae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Small White Sun-orchid (Thelymitra albiflora)

This Photo:

🔍Leucistic Flower?🔎

Other name:

Plain Sun-orchid

Thank you Adam Dutkiewicz & Robert Mitchell for identifying and Robert Lawrence & Rusty Ryder for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Murray-Darling, SA, Adelaide Hills and possibly elsewhere
The first flower was originally id'ed as T. nuda.
When this happened we questioned Robert Lawrence about the 2nd flower, being a different coloured hood, and he said "It is certainly not typical. It could be leucistic."

This species is classed as

RA (Rare)

in the Murray-Darling, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)

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