Thelymitra

Accepted species 126 Documented here 52 Family Orchidaceae

Accepted species 126 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Thelymitra longifolia J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. 458 documented
Thelymitra pauciflora R.Br. 210 documented
Thelymitra pulchella Hook.f. 171 documented
Thelymitra ixioides Sw. 169 documented
Thelymitra nervosa Colenso 159 documented
Thelymitra antennifera (Lindl.) Hook.f. 158 documented
Thelymitra cyanea (Lindl.) Benth. 157 documented
Thelymitra hatchii L.B.Moore 146 documented
Thelymitra crinita Lindl. 115 documented
Thelymitra rubra Fitzg. 66 documented
Thelymitra benthamiana Rchb.f. 60 documented
Thelymitra macrophylla Lindl. 52 documented
Thelymitra graminea Lindl. 49 documented
Thelymitra flexuosa Endl. 42 documented
Thelymitra aristata Lindl. 29 documented
Thelymitra formosa Colenso 29 documented
Thelymitra petrophila Jeanes 29 documented
Thelymitra luteocilium Fitzg. 26 documented
Thelymitra carnea R.Br. 18 documented
Thelymitra tigrina R.Br. 17 documented
Thelymitra grandiflora Fitzg. 16 documented
Thelymitra paludosa Jeanes 15 documented
Thelymitra purpureofusca Colenso 15 documented
Thelymitra malvina M.A.Clem., D.L.Jones & Molloy 11 documented
Thelymitra matthewsii Cheeseman 11 documented
Thelymitra vulgaris Jeanes 11 documented
Thelymitra brevifolia Jeanes 10 documented
Thelymitra fuscolutea R.Br. 10 documented
Thelymitra juncifolia Lindl. 9 documented
Thelymitra megacalyptra Fitzg. 9 documented
Thelymitra peniculata Jeanes 8 documented
Thelymitra arenaria Lindl. 7 documented
Thelymitra circumsepta Fitzg. 7 documented
Thelymitra magnifica Jeanes 7 documented
Thelymitra media R.Br. 7 documented
Thelymitra tholiformis Molloy & Hatch 7 documented
Thelymitra canaliculata R.Br. 6 documented
Thelymitra speciosa Jeanes 6 documented
Thelymitra albiflora Jeanes 5 documented
Thelymitra apiculata (A.S.George) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 5 documented
Thelymitra batesii Jeanes 5 documented
Thelymitra longiloba D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. 5 documented
Thelymitra uliginosa Jeanes 5 documented
Thelymitra villosa Lindl. 5 documented
Thelymitra cornicina Rchb.f. 4 documented
Thelymitra sargentii R.S.Rogers 4 documented
Thelymitra aemula Cheeseman 3 documented
Thelymitra alcockiae D.L.Jones ex Jeanes 3 documented
Thelymitra cucullata Rupp 3 documented
Thelymitra erosa D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. 3 documented
Thelymitra fragrans D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. 3 documented
Thelymitra simulata D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. 3 documented
Thelymitra campanulata Lindl. 4 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra epipactoides F.Muell. 4 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra holmesii Nicholls 3 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra gregaria D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. 2 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra nuda R.Br. 2 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra pulcherrima Jeanes 2 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra queenslandica Jeanes 2 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra azurea R.S.Rogers 1 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra hiemalis D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. 1 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra mucida Fitzg. 1 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra × chasmogama R.S.Rogers 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra × mackibbinii F.Muell. 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra × macmillanii F.Muell. 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra × truncata R.S.Rogers 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra abrupta R.J.Bates 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra adorata Jeanes 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra aggericola D.L.Jones 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra alpicola Jeanes 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra alpina Jeanes 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra angustifolia R.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra atronitida Jeanes 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra basaltica Jeanes 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra bracteata J.Z.Weber ex Jeanes 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra colensoi Hook.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra corrugata R.J.Bates 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra crenulata R.J.Bates 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra cyanapicata Jeanes 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra dedmaniarum R.S.Rogers 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra dentata L.B.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra exigua Jeanes 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra forbesii Ridl. 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra frenchii Jeanes 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra glaucophylla R.J.Bates ex Jeanes 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra granitora D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra hygrophila R.J.Bates 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra imbricata D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra improcera D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra incurva Jeanes 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra inflata Jeanes 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra irregularis Nicholls 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra jacksonii Hopper & A.P.Br. ex Jeanes 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra javanica Blume 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra jonesii Jeanes 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra kangaloonica Jeanes 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra latifolia R.J.Bates 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra latiloba Jeanes 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra lucida Jeanes 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra maculata Jeanes 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra merraniae Nicholls 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra occidentalis Jeanes 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra odora R.J.Bates 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra orientalis R.J.Bates 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra pallidiflora Jeanes 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra pallidifructus R.J.Bates 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra papuana J.J.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra planicola Jeanes 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra polychroma D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra psammophila C.R.P.Andrews 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra purpurata Rupp 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra reflexa Jeanes 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra rubricaulis R.J.Bates 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra sanscilia H.S.Irwin ex Hatch 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra sarasiniana Kraenzl. 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra silena D.L.Jones 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra spadicea D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra sparsa D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra spiralis (Lindl.) F.Muell. 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra stellata Lindl. 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra tubulina R.J.Bates 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra variegata (Lindl.) F.Muell. 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra venosa R.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra viridis Jeanes 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra xanthotricha Jeanes 0 below the evidence gate
Thelymitra yorkensis Jeanes 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.