Plant: to 10cm tall with a rosette of 2–4 broad oval yellow green leaves lengthening in maturity to 3-6cm x 15-25mm.

Flowers: medium-sized 15cm tall. Labellum brownish, narrow-triangular, arched and protruding, apex subacute, inner surface covered with short, back pointing hairs giving an unusually furry appearance, stigma narrow oblong.

Flowering: November to December.

Habitat: montane to alpine mossy forest, scrub and short grassland. Urewera southwards.

Conservation: local, sometimes abundant, forming swathes.

Notes: very like P. humilis, but has an oblong stigma, rather than the heart-shaped one of P. humilis, and slightly later flowering at similar sites.

Key features: medium-sized flower above close-spaced broad leaves, stigma oblong, labellum furry, montane to alpine plants.