Thelymitra kangaloonica Jeanes

Leaf 100–350 × 5–20 mm, thick, fleshy, green, base purplish. Flower stem 200–560 × 2–3.5 mm, 2–15-flowered. Sterile bracts usually 3, large, lowest bract leaf-like. Flowers 15–30 mm across, deep blue with darker veins, externally brownish. Sepals and petals 8–18 × 4–8 mm, concave. Column 5.5–6.5 × 2.5–3.5 mm, white to pale blue; post-anther lobe not hooding column, strap-like, 3.5–4.5 × 1.5–2 mm, yellow with dark purple collar, curved, slender, notched, lobes toothed; column arms converging, 1.5–2.3 mm long, obliquely erect; hair-tufts short, toothbrush-like, dense, white, hairs 1–1.6 mm long. Anther at base of column.

Highly localised; found growing among tall sedges and rushes in grey, silty soil in open swamps that are seasonally wet.