Dipodium variegatum

Leafless plant, 15–60 cm tall. Stem green to dark reddish-black, inflorescence much shorter than subtending flowering stem. Ovary humped, surface warty; ovary and pedicel with conspicuous maroon spots, together 10–17 mm long. Flowers cream or light pink with heavy maroon blotching, segments widely spreading, reflexed near tips. Sepals and petals linear-ovate, 11–15 mm long, 3–5 mm wide. Labellum callus with linear, hairy, divergent keels near base, lamina with central band of mauve hairs c. 1 mm long, extending from callus to apex where becoming broad and densely tangled. Flowers Dec.–Feb.