Recorded distribution
Plant
Up to 70cm tall, with several long, stiff, pointed, channelled leaves, shorter than stem.
Flowers
2-12, green to maroon. Lateral sepals like thin horns, upright to diverging horizontally. Broad labellum bends forwards, 3-lobed, tip rounded. Floral bract short.
Flowering
November - January.
Habitat
Lowland: dry open banks and grassland. South to Nelson and Marlborough
Conservation
Often locally common, not threatened.
Notes
Colour and floral bract length variable among plants in the same population.
Key features
Several basal leaves and hooded flower with long, stiff, lateral sepals.
