Wet place spider orchids

Habitat: Permanently wet, mossy road banks; damp forest and wet tussock herb fields; dunes. Lowland to montane.

Key features: Short tepals, dark narrow labellum midlobe with in-rolled lateral margins

Habitat: Wet, mossy, shady stream banks. Northland.

Key features: The dark, almost bell shaped labellum is quite distinct.

Habitat: Calcareous siltstone, mudstone and limestone and fertile soils; streamsides, damp areas.

Key features: Large flower, dark labellum colour, ridged dorsal sepal.

Habitat: Streamsides, wet mossy rocks, lowland to montane. Volcanic Plateau southwards.

Key features: Dorsal sepal and labellum translucent with a weft of pale maroon streaks. Petals and sepals about equal.

Habitat: Calcareous siltstone, mudstone and limestone country; streamsides, damp seepages, roadsides. Taranaki and central North Island.

Key features: Flower sits above leaf, mostly green with patchy maroon in the throat.

Habitat: Wet, mossy stream banks often just above the flood line, waterfall spray zone and wet seepages. Coromandel and Kaimai ranges eastward to Urewera.

Key features: Ovary sitting above a clasping, sessile leaf, deep narrow midlobe narrowing to a point, surface hairless; auricle down pointing.

Habitat: Wet shady seepages, stream banks with good light; wet shady road cuttings. Whangarei south to Nelson and the West coast.

Key features: Hairy midlobe, flower well above leaf on a long ovary and forward pointing auricles.

Habitat: Wet alpine areas.

Key features: Round leaf, flowers above the leaf but separating from below, pale widely open labellum, petals much shorter than lateral sepals, labellum outer margin wavy.