Recorded distribution
Plant
To 15 cm tall, medium-sized, often numerous. Leaves broad, grassy, 3-10 mm x 2-10 cm, may be shortly stalked and bunched in a semi-rosette or sessile and scattered up the stem.
Flowers
Often tinged olive green, leaning forward, tip of dorsal sepal down turned, lateral sepals turned sharply back. Labellum prominent, in a wide gape, elliptic, the tip narrowly obtuse, flat or slightly constricted; stigma flat, oval.
Flowering
October - November.
Habitat
Grass or light scrub, lowland to montane. Throughout South Island.
Conservation
Locally abundant in swathes, not threatened.
Notes
One of the medium flowered species much smaller than P. patens, P. subsimilis and P. australis.
Key features
Down-turned tip to dorsal sepal, sharply recurved sepals, wide gape and broad leaves.
