Recorded distribution
Plant
To 8cm tall, leaf margins distinctly wavy.
Flowers
Reddish or green with a pale column. Labellum with dark hairy tubercles reaching the tip of midlobe, mimicking a female wasp.
Flowering
September.
Habitat
Known only from near Kaitaia over a century ago.
Conservation
Vagrant from Australia, now thought to be extinct in NZ.
Notes
Photographs are of Australian plants.
Key features
Labellum appearing to hold a wasp.
