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Thelymitra formosa Colenso

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New Zealand
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Colenso
Colenso
Colenso, W. 1884 ("1883"): A further contribution towards making known the botany of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 16: 325–363.
1883
1884
338
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Thelymitra formosa Colenso
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Thelymitra formosa

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asparagales
Orchidaceae
Thelymitra
formosa

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Dawson, M.I. 2008: Index of chromosome numbers of indigenous New Zealand vascular plants.

Thelymitra formosa Colenso

2n = 40
2n = 40
Moore, L.B.; Edgar, E. 1970: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. II. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Monocotyledones except Gramineae. Botany Division DSIR, Wellington.

Thelymitra formosa Colenso

Plant at fl. to 50 cm. tall. Lf to 2 cm. wide, channelled, thick and heavy, sheathing high up stem. Infl. to c. 12-fld. Per. c. 9–13 mm. long, blue, without stripes or spots. Sepals, petals and labellum similar, narrow-obovate. Column-arms flattened, ± channelled, with yellow fringes and cilia from margins, each arm projecting from inner face of side lobule, us. standing taller than anther; post-anther lobe not as tall as anther, erect, margins yellowish red and ± thickened into finger-like calli; side lobules taller than anther, pinkish or yellowish, fleshy, with subulate erect points on margins and similar or more elongate tubercles on surface.

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Thelymitra formosa Colenso
Thelymitra formosa Colenso
Dawson, M.I. (2008)
Thelymitra J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
Thelymitra formosa Colenso
Thelymitra formosa Colenso
Dawson, M.I. (2008)
Thelymitra J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
Thelymitra formosa Colenso
Thelymitra formosa Colenso
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A. et al. (2004)
Thelymitra formosa Colenso
Thelymitra formosa Colenso
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A. et al. (2009)
Thelymitra formosa Colenso
Thelymitra formosa Colenso
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2013)
Thelymitra formosa Colenso
Thelymitra formosa Colenso
Thelymitra formosa Colenso
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R. et al. (2018)
Thelymitra formosa Colenso
Thelymitra formosa Colenso
Thelymitra formosa Colenso
Moore, L.B.; Edgar, E. (1970)
Thelymitra formosa Colenso
Thelymitra formosa Colenso
Parsons, M.J.; Douglass, P.; Macmillan, B.H. (1998)
Thelymitra formosa Colenso

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Thelymitra formosa Colenso
New Zealand
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Thelymitra formosa Colenso
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
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Thelymitra formosa Colenso
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
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Thelymitra formosa Colenso
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
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Thelymitra formosa Colenso
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
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Thelymitra formosa Colenso
New Zealand
Otago Land District
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Thelymitra formosa Colenso
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
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Thelymitra formosa Colenso
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
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1 January 2000
3 October 2005
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