Thelymitra ixioides Sw.

Leaf 200–300 × 10–15 mm, dark green, base reddish. Flower stem 300–600 × 3–6 mm, 1–15-flowered (rarely to 22 flowers). Sterile bracts 2 or 3. Flowers 30–40 mm across, pale blue to dark blue or mauve, rarely pinkish, greenish blue or white, with relatively small dark blue spots on dorsal sepal and petals (sometimes no spots). Sepals and petals 15–20 × 9–12 mm (labellum narrowest). Column 4–6 × 3–3.5 mm, white or blue; post-anther lobe short, not hooded, yellow, with dark blue dorsal band and 2–4 rows of relatively short, crowded, finger-like papillae, tips yellow or orange, irregular; accessory lobes incurved, nearly flat over anther, columnar, much higher than post-anther lobe, top yellow to orange; column arms 1.5–2.5 mm long, obliquely erect or horizontal; hair-tufts dense, mop-like, hairs white, pink or bluish, 1–1.5 mm long.

Widespread and common, extending from the coast to inland ranges and forests; found growing in a wide range of habitats, particularly heathy forest and heathland, but also on swamp margins, shallow stony soils in inland areas and flats, slopes, ridges and gullies in open forest and woodland, usually in freely draining, sandy soil or loam, but also in moist to wet sands.

It can be grown by division.