Citation: R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 318 (1810).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Slaty leek-orchid.

Description:
A slender to moderately robust plant, 15-80 cm high; leaf of variable length, usually equalling the spike, erect, terete, dilated at the union with the stem.

Flowers semi-erect, green, yellow or brown, in a moderately loose or slightly crowded raceme, sweetly perfumed; ovary oblong-ovoid to ovoid, subtended by a small acute bracteole; dorsal sepal erect, lanceolate, acute, incurved, the tip usually slightly deflexed; lateral sepals stout, 11-13 x c. 5 mm, tips often 2-dentate, acute, free or partly united, sometimes spreading widely when free, margins incurved; petals usually the same length as the dorsal sepals, lanceolate, erect or slightly spreading; labellum oblong, recurved in its distal third, which is twice as long as wide; erect part ovate or oval; recurved part ending in an acute tip; membranous part narrow, often with a very definite constriction beyond the bend; callose portion may exceed the membranous portion, not conspicuously thickened in the erect part, becoming increasingly thickened as it crosses the constriction and ending very abruptly near the tip, green to maroon; column short and wide; appendages with obtuse tips, shorter than the rostellum, the basal lobes reaching to about their middle, adnate below the stigma to the sides of the stigmatic plate; stigma reniform; pollinia sectile, easily removed, caudicle short.

Conservation status: native Flowering time: No flowering time is available

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Key to Infraspecific taxa:

2. Lateral sepals connate for half their length in old flowers; callus plate of the labellum generally terminating well before the apex; flowers wholly greenish

var. validum 7c.

Author: Not yet available