Potato orchids

Habitat: Lowland to montane forest and common in mature pine plantations. Widespread

Key features: Knobbly outer labellum and short column deep within the tube.

Habitat: Wide range of disturbed vegetation. Widespread.

Key features: Knobbly yellow to greenish flowers and long, yellow-tipped column with pollinia visible at the mouth of the tube.

Habitat: Often grows under manuka, pines, kamahi or gorse, or amongst Spanish heather. Widespread.

Key features: Small plant, few smooth to ribbed flowers that scarcely open.

Habitat: Wide range of scrubby or dry vegetation including pine plantations and bark in traffic islands. Lowland to montane. South to Nelson.

Key features: Flowers smooth with few warts, yellow tipped column and pollina visible at the tube mouth.

Habitat: Forest and kanuka scrub. Wairarapa and Nelson.

Key features: Knobbly flower with a long column and black tipped labellum visible at the tube mouth.

Habitat: Fertile stream terraces and similar places, nearly always found under taraire or nikau. Mid-Northland south to Nelson.

Key features: Tiny size, cryptic colouring and association with nikau and taraire.