Citation: R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 327 (1810).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Maroon-hood.

Description:
Very slender, erect, 10-22 cm high; leaves in a basal rosette, on long petioles, lamina ovate or oblong, 1.5-2.5 cm long; stem bracts small, usually 2 or 3 besides that subtending the floral pedicel.

Flower solitary, green, with dark-brown colouration about the sinus of the lower lip and apex of the galea; galea c. 13 mm long, erect, then curved horizontally forward to the tip, terminating in a short acute point; lateral sepals (lower lip) erect, the lobes enclosing a rather acute sinus without an inflexed tooth, distally produced into long slender diverging subulate points on each side of the galea and exceeding it; labellum dark-brown, on a movable claw, shorter than the column; lamina bluntly ovate, c. 5.5 mm long, traversed by a raised central line; basal appendage rather long, linear, curved, 3-fid at the end; column erect, c. 11 mm long; upper angle of the wings produced into a filiform process; lower lobe lanceolate with an obtuse point and an inturned ciliate margin; stigma elliptical.

Published illustration: Fitzgerald (1879)Australian orchids vol. 1, pt 5; Pocock (1972) Ground orchids of Australia, pl. 125 & 127 as P. pyramidalis.

Distribution:  Forms small often dense colonies in leaf litter, mainly in well shaded areas. Common. S.Aust.: FR, NL, YP, SL, KI, SE.   Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas. Conservation status: native Flowering time: July — Oct.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: Putative hybrids have been reported with P. curia (SL).

Author: Not yet available