Recorded distribution
Plant
To 25 cm tall. Flowering plants with a basal rosette and several sheathing bracts.
Flowers
With broad dorsal sepals and petals, 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 - October.
Habitat
Winter wet gumland scrub; often with sedges. Northland to Nelson. Local, rare.
Conservation
Widespread but never common. Threatened - Nationally Vulnerable.
Notes
Closely related to Australian species. Often with the less common P. puberula.
Key features
Very distinct with the hairy, pendulous labellum.
