Pterostylis despectans

Flowering plant 3–8 cm tall, stem leaves 3 or 4, closely sheathing. Rosette leaves 5–10, elliptic to obovate, 1–2 cm long, 6–9 mm wide, margins scabrid. Flowers 1–6,  porrect to deflexed, 1–1.5 cm long, on slender pedicels to 1.5 cm long, transparent with brown, greyish or green markings and suffusions; dorsal sepal with an upcurved filiform point 10–13 mm long; lateral sepals deflexed, conjoined part narrowly ovate to elliptic in outline when flattened, shallowly concave, margins slightly incurved, densely ciliate, free points filamentous, 2–2.5 cm long, curved forwards, more or less parallel, often touching the ground, c. 10 mm apart at the tips; petals with a poorly developed proximal flange. Labellum oblong-elliptic, 4.5–5 mm long, c. 2 mm wide, green or brown, thin-textured; marginal hairs 8–10 pairs, c. 0.5 mm long, white; basal lobe erect, with 2 prominent, forward-pointing hairs c. 3 mm long. Flowers Oct.–Dec.