Common name: Tiny Sun Orchid, Pink Sun Orchid
Thelymitra carnea R.Br. APNI* 
Description: Terrestrial herb.
Leaf linear, to 15 cm long and 3 mm wide, terete.
Inflorescence to 35 cm high, 1–4-flowered; peduncle wiry, flexuous. Perianth segments to 7 mm long and 4 mm wide (opening tardily), pink to reddish, or rarely yellow. Column to 4 mm long, cream to reddish. Midlobe short, thickened, narrowing at apex, shallowly notched and papillose or weakly toothed, ellow. Lateral arms short, flat, acute-ovate, margins with blunt teeth to shallowly scalloped, yellowish. Anther protrusive but much reduced with a minutely roughened apex.
Flowering: September–November
Distribution and occurrence: Common in open shrubland and woodland or in damp soils among sedges and grasses, often persisting where the original vegetation has been greatly disturbed.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, ?NT, CT, ST, CWS
Other Australian states: Qld Vic. Tas. S.A.
Specimens from N.S.W. previously named as T. rubra belong here.
Text by P. Bernhardt (1993); edited KL Wilson and PH Weston (Mar 2013)
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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