Recorded distribution
Plant
To 10 cm tall at flowering. Leaf sessile, oblong, parallel veined, low on the stem often flat to the ground.
Flowers
Colourless to dull pink or maroon with flat, oblong, glistening conspicuous labellum bearing nectar droplets and two conspicuous basal calli.
Flowering
July - August.
Habitat
Under kauri, lying on dense kauri litter.
Conservation
Locally abundant.
Notes
Ecologically distinct from but very similar to Cyrtostylis rotundifolia and not always easily distinguished as the flowers are identical.
Key features
Leaf distinctly oblong and more prominently veined than C. rotundifolia.
