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> Biodiversity > Threatened species & ecological communities > Threatened species > Plants > Orchids

Thelymitra epipactoides

Metallic sun-orchid

Scientific name: Thelymitra epipactoides

Conservation status

IUCN:
national: endangered
state: endangered
regional: critically endangered (West & Murraylands)

Resources
Fact sheet	metallic sun-orchid fact sheet
National Recovery Plan	National Recovery Plan for 21 threatened orchids in south-eastern Australia, Duncan & Coates
Regional Recovery Plan	South Australian Murray Darling Basin threatened flora Recovery Plan, Obst (2005) Draft Recovery Plan for 23 threatened flora taxa on Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Pobke (2007).

Resources

Fact sheet

metallic sun-orchid fact sheet

National Recovery Plan

National Recovery Plan for 21 threatened orchids in south-eastern Australia, Duncan & Coates

Regional Recovery Plan

South Australian Murray Darling Basin threatened flora Recovery Plan, Obst (2005)

Draft Recovery Plan for 23 threatened flora taxa on Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Pobke (2007).

Acknowledgement of Country

The state government acknowledges Aboriginal people as the First Peoples and Nations of the lands and waters we live and work upon and we pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge and respect the deep spiritual connection and the relationship that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have to Country.

We work in partnership with the First Peoples of South Australia and support their Nations to take a leading role in caring for their Country.