Pterostylis scapula

Flowering plant 30–75 cm tall, stem leaves 4–7, spreading, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, 2–7 cm long, 5–8 mm wide, dark green. Rosette leaves on a separate plant, 3–6, ovate to lanceolate, 10–50 mm long, 3–7 mm wide. Flowers 1–12, 1.9–2.3 cm long, shiny, translucent green with dark green stripes, sepals tips orange- to reddish-brown; dorsal sepal with short apical point; lateral sepals deflexed, conjoined part oblong-elliptic, 14–16 mm long, 7–8 mm wide; petals obliquely oblong or slightly falcate, with a well-developed basal flange. Labellum oblong to oblong-ovate, 7.5–9 mm long, 3.5–4 mm wide, deep reddish-brown, the basal mound erect, blunt, central strip and basal mound covered with numerous, short, transparent, bead-like cells, longer and hair-like at base, lateral lobes thick, incurved, midlobe c. 2 mm long, narrowly notched, apex incurved. Flowers Jul.–Sep.