Pterostylis melagramma

Flowering plant 10–80 cm tall, stem leaves 5–7, spreading, linear-lanceolate, 2–8 cm long, 3–10 mm wide. Rosette leaves 3–6, linear to linear-ovate, 1.3–5 cm long, 4–11 mm wide. Flowers 1–20, 13–15 mm long, shiny, translucent green with indistinct darker green stripes, sepal tips brownish; galea decurved in the distal third; dorsal sepal with an acuminate apex; lateral sepals deflexed, conjoined part narrowly elliptic, 11–13 mm long, 6–8 mm wide, free points 3–4 mm long, parallel or slightly divergent; petals slightly falcate, basal flanges small, apex obtuse. Labellum ovate-oblong, 5–6.5 mm long, c. 2.5 mm wide, cream to yellowish green or pale brownish with a darker basal mound and brown to black central stripe, covered with numerous, short, transparent bead-like cells, longer and hair-like at base, apex attenuate, notched. Flowers Jun.–Nov.