Prasophyllum sylvestre

Flowering stem slender, 20–50 cm tall. Leaf-blade to 10–20 cm long, 3–4 mm diam. at base, apex suberect, attenuated. Flowers 5–30, pale green, pink and reddish-brown, fragrant, in a loose, narrow raceme 4–9 cm long; pedicel slender, c. 1.5 mm long; ovary obovoid, 4–5 mm long, shiny green; sepals 7–10 mm long, dorsal sepal ovate-lanceolate, deflexed, lateral sepals united in lower half, linear-lanceolate, obliquely erect, tips slightly divergent, apex keeled; petals 6–7.5 mm long, linear, spreading or incurved, acute. Labellum 6–9 mm long, shortly clawed, pink or whitish, proximal half obliquely erect with upturned, slightly crenulate margins, distal half suddenly reflexed and constricted into a narrow tail-like portion, margins crisped or undulate; callus linear-ovate, raised, channelled, yellowish or pink, glistening, reaching almost to labellum apex. Column appendages pale pink, linear, sigmoid, c. 2.5 mm long. Flowers Oct.–Dec.