Plant: to over 1m tall, dappled brown or greenish with many, pendant flowers, usually smooth, but sometimes with a few tubercles.

Flowers: white to mustard, column as long as tube.

Flowering: October to December.

Habitat: wide range of scrubby or dry vegetation including pine plantations and bark in traffic islands. Lowland to montane. South to Nelson.

Conservation: local, not threatened.

Notes: distinguished from other species except G. minor by the lack of warts on the exterior of the flower, the long column and sometimes, more highly coloured flowers.

Key features: flowers smooth with few warts, yellow tipped column and pollina visible at the tube mouth.