| Blue Lady Orchid | |
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| Flowering at Jarrahdale, Western Australia | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Orchidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Orchidoideae |
| Tribe: | Diurideae |
| Subtribe: | Thelymitrinae |
| Genus: | Thelymitra |
| Species: | T. crinita |
| Binomial name | |
| Thelymitra crinita Lindl. |
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| Synonyms | |
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Thelymitra ovata F.Muell. |
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Thelymitra crinita, commonly known as the Blue Lady Orchid, the Queen Orchid, the Lily Orchid or the Long-haired Thelymitra, is a species of orchid which is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia.[1][2] It grows to 70 cm in height and produces blue flowers between September and November (spring) in its native range.
The species was first formally described by botanist John Lindley in 1839 in A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony[2]