Another Flower Aspect Photo courtesy of Colin Rowan and his Retired Aussies Website

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Common Name Holme's Sun Orchid - Blue Star Sun Orchid

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

Found in heathlands, woodlands and open forests, usually growing in seasonally wet areas at elevations of sea level to 200 meters in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia , as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial orchid with a single leaf that blooms in the spring in Australia on an erect, to 16" [40 cm] tall, 2 to 10 flowered inflorescence with usually 2 sterile bracts .

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006