Plant: to 30cm tall, stem stout elongating greatly after fertilisation. Leaves elliptic in a semi-rosette, stem with one or two leafy sheathing bracts.

Flowers: medium sized 20mm tall, stout, erect with dark green, down-curved blunt dorsal sepal and petals. Labellum broad, dark green, paler below.

Flowering: October to December.

Habitat: Lowland; grassland and open scrub, track sides and well lit forest or scrub. Waikato to Otago.

Conservation: scattered, never abundant; not threatened. Occurs in Australia

Notes: Flower seems small in proportion to stem.

Key features: basal rosette, long stem and broad curved dorsal sepal with blunt tip.