Citation: R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 326 (1810).

Synonymy: Taurantha concinna

Common name: Trim green-hood.

Description:
Slender, glabrous, 4-15 cm high; leaves in a basal rosette, on fairly long petioles; lamina ovate or oblong-ovate, 1.5-2.5 cm long.

Flower solitary, green with brown points, sinus and labellum; galea light-green with darker longitudinal stripes, c. 15 mm long, at first erect, then curved horizontally forward, its tip acute, depressed; lateral sepals (lower lip) erect, their lobes including a very wide sinus and produced into erect fine points c. 15 mm long on each side of the galea; labellum on a linear claw attached to the projecting foot of the column, oblong, acutely emarginate, c. 8 mm long (including the claw); penicillate appendage slender, curved forward, the tip multipartite; lamina almost straight, with a rather broad longitudinal raised line down the centre; column erect, c. 10 mm long, the upper angles of the wings very acute and higher than the anther, lower lobes broad, rounded, with ciliated margins; stigma swollen, oval.

Published illustration: Hooker (1835) Curtis's Bot. Mag. 62:t. 3400; Gray (1960) Victorian native orchids 1:61; Woolcock (1984) Australian terrestrial orchids, pl. 55C.

Distribution:  Known from only 2 colonies in open grassy forest in this State. S.Aust.: SE.   N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas. Conservation status: native Flowering time: June — Oct.

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

Biology: A hybrid, P. xtoveyana Ewart & Sharman, between P. concinna and P. alata occurs in Vic. and Tas. but has not been collected in S. Aust.

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