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Cyanicula caerulea is a terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, herb with an underground tuber and a single, sparsely hairy leaf, 20–70 mm (0.8–3 in) long, 2–5 mm (0.08–0.2 in) wide and which usually lies flat on the ground.
Cyanicula, commonly known as blue orchids, is a genus of twelve species of plants in the orchid family, Orchidaceae. All are endemic to Australia, eleven are endemic to Western Australia and one species occurs in eastern Australia. While both the common and scientific names refer to "blue", the two subspecies of C. ixioides have yellow or white ...
Thelymitra ixioides, known as the spotted sun orchid [2] or dotted sun orchid, [3] is a species of orchid that is native to southern and eastern Australia and to New Zealand. It has a single long, thin, dark green leaf and up to ten flowers which occur in a range of colours, most commonly blue to purple but usually with small, dark blue spots.
Silky blue orchid was first formally described in 1840 by John Lindley in his A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony. [5] In 2000, Stephen Hopper and Andrew Brown changed the name to Cyanicula sericea. [6] The specific epithet (sericea) is a Latin word meaning "silken" or "silky", referring to the soft, silky leaf of this species. [3]
Pheladenia deformis, commonly known as blue fairy orchid or blue beard is the only species of the flowering plant genus Pheladenia in the orchid family, Orchidaceae and is endemic to Australia. It was originally named as Caladenia deformis and has since had several name changes.
Caladenia amplexans, commonly known as dainty blue china orchid, is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It has a relatively broad leaf and one or two pale blue and white flowers. It is distinguished from the other two similar blue orchids by the sides of the labellum which curve over the column and ...
Aulonocara kandeense, the blue orchid aulonacara, [3] is a species of haplochromine cichlid which is endemic to Lake Malawi where it occurs only around Kande Island, in Malawian waters. [1] It is found in a mixed habitat where rocky areas meet softer substrates.
Thelymitra campanulata, commonly called the bell sun orchid or shirt orchid, [2] is a species of orchid in the family Orchidaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a common species with a single narrow leaf and up to fifteen distinctly cup-shaped, prominently striped blue or mauve flowers with crowded, finger-like ...