Plant: 10–30cm tall, with many flowers on stem

Flowers: with dorsal sepal tip up-turned, petals almost hidden under dorsal; labellum narrower at tip than base, tongue-like, with smooth margin and no terminal notch. The two elongated calli at the base of the labellum are rounded and parallel.

Flowering: October to March.

Habitat: lowland, open places.

Conservation: not common, not threatened.

Notes: True M. parviflora has a very smooth-edged labellum; some NZ forms with triangular labella have undulate or notched margins and may be a different entity.

Key features: labellum long, tapering, usually strongly curled and not notched, margin plain.