Cyrtostylis oblonga
(the oblong leaf)

A slender plant with a single sessile basal leaf and 3-4
pinkish flowers. Grows in open mossy places in forest.

Distribution - Endemic - Three Kings Is., North Id.,
southwards to the Waitakere Ranges and Rangitoto Id.

Flowers - September - October - insect pollinated.

Cyrtostylis reniformis
(the kidney-shaped leaf)

Distribution - Australia - Tasmania, South Australia,
Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland.
New Zealand - North Id., North Cape to Kaitaia, and about Wellington.

Flowers - July - October - insect pollinated.

Danhatchia australis
(southern - it was originally placed in the Asiatic genus Yoania)

Rhizomatous, non-green, parasitic on the puffball fungus Lycoperdon perlatum, which in its turn grows in mycorrhizal association with the roots of taraire, nikau or Pseudopanax lessonii.

Plant at flowering an erect, hairy, sometimes branching stem, with several colourless stem bracts.

Flowers 1-7, rarely opening and then only briefly. Sepals and petals with conspicuous cream-coloured tips. Dorsal sepal eventually shorter than the petals, which continue to lengthen after the flower opens. The plants flower at erratic intervals, sometimes not appearing for several years.

Distribution - Endemic - North Id., from Waipoua State Forest southwards to Pirongia mountain, including, Fanal, Great and Little Barrier, and Waiheke Is.: South Id., Sounds / Nelson district.

Flowers - December - February - self pollinated.