Plant: to 25 cm tall. Flowering plants with a basal rosette and several sheathing bracts.

Flowers: dorsal sepals and petals broad, pointed and upright and curved towards the tip. Lateral sepals erect in bud, drop straight down in open flowers then close up again in spent flowers. Labellum a brush of yellow bristles terminating in a dark brown callus drooping well beyond the flower and swaying in the wind.

Flowering: September to October.

Habitat: winter wet gumland scrub; often with sedges. Northland to Nelson. Local, rare.

Conservation: widespread but never common, not threatened.

Notes: closely related to Australian species. Often with the less common P. puberula.

Key features: very distinct with the hairy, pendulous labellum.