Plant: 3- 5cm high when in flower. Leaves, 30 x 25cm, often smaller, orbicular to oblong-oval. Shortly petiolate.

Flowers: edges of the long narrow labellum are in-rolled to give a trough-like appearance, sepals and petals very short – about as long as the dorsal sepal.

Flowering: November.

Habitat: permanently wet, mossy road banks; damp forest and wet tussock herb fields; dunes. Lowland to montane.

Conservation: widespread: common in suitable habitat.

Notes: variable in colour, width of dorsal sepal and length of petals and sepals.

Key features: short tepals, dark narrow labellum midlobe with in-rolled lateral margins.