Plant
3- 5cm tall when in flower. Leaves, 30 x 25cm, often smaller, orbicular to oblong-oval. Shortly petiolate.
Flowers
With edges of the long narrow labellum in-rolled to give a trough-like appearance, sepals and petals very short about as long as the dorsal sepal.
Flowering
November.
Habitat
Permanently wet, mossy road banks; damp forest and wet tussock herb fields; dunes. Lowland to montane.
Conservation
Widespread: common in suitable habitat.
Notes
Variable in colour, width of dorsal sepal and length of petals and sepals.
Key features
Short tepals, dark narrow labellum midlobe with in-rolled lateral margins