Thelymitra juncifolia

Flowering stem erect, straight, 15–30 cm tall, 2–3 mm diam., mostly straw-coloured to green, reddish basally. Leaf filiform to linear-lanceolate, 10–20 cm long, 5–10 mm wide, canaliculate, dark green, often reddish at base. Inflorescence 1–5-flowered, loose. Sterile bracts 2 or 3. Perianth segments ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 10–13 mm long, pale blue or mauve, usually with large darker spots on dorsal sepal and petals. Column 4–6 mm long, white or blue, often with a dark brown, reddish or dark purple subterminal band; mid-lobe not hooded, central part truncate, with a central patch of crowded fingerlike vertical calli, yellow, orange or brownish, often bordered from inside (near anther) with a vertical plate-like crest, sometimes taller than calli; accessory-lobes incurved over anther, columnar, protruding beyond the mid-lobe, oblique or flat-topped, yellow to orange, crest smooth to denticulate; lateral lobes 1–2 mm long, extending horizontally or oblique, flattish, ending in a mop-like white or mauve hair-tuft. Anther protruding below or between column-arms, shortly beaked. Flowers Oct.–Dec.