Habitat: various forest, damp ground and moderate shade. Throughout, widespread, common.
Key features: large flower, with a very broadly trowel shaped, striped labellum with lower edge often red rimmed and split into two “ears”.
Habitat: moist forest floor, and shady manuka. Waikato and Bay of Plenty southwards.
Key features: trowel-shaped, very pale labellum midlobe and maroon outer to the wings which are pale cream within, and prominent green cap of the dorsal sepal.
Habitat: Moist mountain beech forest and alpine fringes, Ruapehu to Nelson. Tolerates snow.
Key features: flower with almost complete lack of red on the green rather translucent labellum.
Habitat: forest, sporadic. Auckland to Waikato but recently recognised, so range unknown.
Key features: Dorsal sepal much longer than labellum, white near the aperture.
Habitat: beech forest where substrate is moist. Auckland southwards, Sea-level to 1500m
Key features: leaf wider than long, dorsal sepal protruding forward, longer than the labellum tube top, small flowers held well below the leaf.
Habitat: beech forest, shady sites beside streams. Sub-alpine to low alpine. Central North Is southwards.
Key features: dorsal sepal jutting out from labellum, very dark colouration with a hairy midlobe.
Habitat: shrublands and grasslands. Campbell Island, Chatham Islands scattered North and SI.
Key features: easily recognized by its ball shaped flower and mottled maroon dorsal sepal and outer labellum.
Habitat: seepages in elevated open beech forest, forest fringes and subalpine grasslands. Central North Is southwards.
Key features: dark flower, dorsal sepal protruding forwards well forward of the labellum top; frequent greenish area around the labellum tube aperture.
Habitat: largely unknown, alpine grassland and scrub. Fiordland (Hump Ridge), Auckland and Campbell Is.
Key features: distinctive widely spaced stripes, very deep flared labellum.
