Thynninorchis huntiana

Leafless saprophyte 8–20 cm tall; flower stem with 2–4 sheathing bracts at base. Flowers 1–10, reddish green, in loose raceme; pedicel (excluding ovary) 6–10 mm long, slender; sepals and petals similar, sharply deflexed against ovary, narrow-oblong to linear, blunt, 4–6 mm long. Labellum with long, slender claw, 5–7 mm long, glabrous, with elbow-like joint on to column foot (of similar length); claw attached at bottom third of labellum lamina; lamina insect-like, 6–8 mm long (including 'tails'), fringed with long purple or reddish hairs; proximal end with 2 short glands terminating in shiny black clubs, with an irregular, rounded, purple gland at their base; distal end with paired, slender, glandular tails, c. 4 mm long, projecting forward, with a short, upcurved beak between them. Column with 4 narrow, tapering lobes that curve in pairs above and below the anther. Flowers Nov.–Mar.