Nematoceras "darkie"
Spider Orchid

PLANT: Terrestrial tuberous herb.
To 5cm high when in flower.

LEAVES: Single 3-lobed leaf. Midlobe only a small apiculus.

FLOWER: Solitary. Dorsal sepal pale green-gray and lightly streaked blackish-crimson. Labellum minutely hairy, outer surface olive-black, inner lighter dull olive with magenta fuzz. Lateral sepals long, pale green lightly streaked blackish crimson.

FLOWERING TIME:
November.

HABITAT: Beneath scrub.

CONSERVATION STATUS: Not Recorded.

NOTES: An un-named species of the Nematoceras trilobum group.
Known only from the Upper Wairau River in Marlborough.