Flowers: Up to 30 tiny dark red flowers, self pollinating and long lasting. Labellum margin fringed with cilia, callus cleft by a linear depression.

Flowering: January to April.

Habitat: lowland to montane, poor damp soil, winter wet clays, often with sundews and sedges. Throughout.

Conservation: few scattered plants in any locality, not threatened.

Notes: young plants look like Microtis but much slimmer. Pollinated plants can look ready to flower months after actually finishing.

Key features: leaf much shorter than the base of the flower spike, flowers maroon.