Plum Sun-orchid: Flower

Class:

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

Order:

Asparagus (Asparagales)

Family:

Orchid (Orchidaceae)

Species:

Plum Sun-orchid (Thelymitra cf inflata)

This Photo:

🔍Flower🔎

Thank you Robert Lawrence for identifying this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Adelaide Hills and possibly elsewhere
This is a tentative id, and Robert suggests T. inflata looks similar to T. holmesii, but the habitat is more suited to T. inflata

This species is protected and classed as

VU (Vulnerable)

under the National Parks & Wildlife, SA, Protection Act

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