Plant: Terrestrial tuberous herb. Stem green to reddish-green. Stem and ovary covered in short glandular hairs.

Leaves: 2 hairy leaves of different sizes. Elliptic or linear. The lower to 10cm in length, the upper shorter. Plain green, or brownish-green with purple or brown blotches.

Flower: Solitary. 2cm in diameter. Sepals and petals white or occasionally tinged with pink. Lateral sepals and petals similar in length and shape. Labellum broadly expanded, white with varying yellow and/or brown markings.
Column speckled with green or brown.

Flowering Time: December - January.

Habitat: Higher altitude Beech forests, sub-alpine to alpine herb-fields, alpine meadows. Also found near sea-level in the lower South Island.

Conservation: Not Threatened.

Notes: Sometimes only a single leaf is present or the second leaf is very small.

Key features: two broad, bronze hairy leaves and distinctive flower.