Recorded distribution
Plant
To 70 cm tall.
Flowers
1-5, blue, dark-spotted flowers. Column bluish, dark purple towards top, crowned with finger-like calli, the tallest yellow or orange, others dark purple or red; side lobes fleshy, the jagged margins often yellow or reddish. Column arms with thin tufts of brushlike white or mauve cilia.
Flowering
October - November.
Habitat
Well lit scrub or forest tracks, roadsides, can extend to montane zones. South to Hokitika.
Conservation
Scattered, never common.
Notes
T. nervosa is the only other N.Z. species with spotted petals.
Key features
Spotted petals, column top open ragged, tipped red or yellow.
