Prasophyllum sp. aff. montanum
Flowering stem slender to stout, 40–80 cm tall. Leaf-blade 15–20 cm long, 3–6 mm diam. at base, apex suberect, senescent at flowering time. Flowers 10–50, mostly greenish or yellowish green with pink or white markings, fragrant, in a moderately crowded spike 15–20 cm long; ovary obovoid, 4–6 mm long; sepals 8–10 mm long, dorsal sepal ovate-lanceolate, lateral sepals free, linear-lanceolate, recurved, parallel or slightly divergent; petals linear-oblong, 8–10 mm long. Labellum subsessile, porrect, 6–8 mm long, recurved at about right angles near middle, lamina usually pink or white, margins wavy to crinkled, apex apiculate; callus plate prominently raised, greenish, wrinkled, channelled, broad at base then tapered, extending almost to the labellum apex. Column appendages linear-oblong, c. 2 mm long. Flowers Dec.–Jan.
CVU, EGU, HSF, HNF, VAlp. Occurs in montane woodlands often on dry stony ridges and slopes in skeletal soils.
This species is related to P. montanum but usually flowers earlier, has smaller flowers with free lateral sepals and a different labellum structure.
