Calochilus paludosus R.Br.

Leaf fully developed at flowering, 100–180 × 4–7 mm, dark green, not pruinose, keeled. Flower stem 150–350 mm tall, thin, wiry, 1–9-flowered. Flowers lasting 2–4 days, 28–34 × 10–14 mm; sepals and petals green to yellowish green with reddish bronze stripes; labellum with coppery red to reddish bronze papillae. Dorsal sepal porrect to reflexed, 11–15 × 6–8 mm. Lateral sepals divergent, 11–15 × 3–4 mm. Petals porrect to spreading, 5–8 × 4–5 mm, tips upcurved. Labellum flat in profile, 25–32 × 12–15 mm, obovate in outline, contracted suddenly and tapered, ending in apical tail; basal part with short red to purple papillae flanked by 2 paler ridges; central part with coarse, erect to spreading, hair-like papillae to 7 mm long, most eglandular, few glandular papillae near apex; apical tail 10–14 × 1 mm, naked, densely glandular; labellum margins with slender, reddish lobes to 10 mm long, a few of those at the apex glandular. Column 4–5 × 3–4 mm, without sham eyes, but with a triangular frontal ridge.

Widespread and common; found growing in a range of forested, heathy and shrubby habitats from the coast to inland ranges and plains in freely draining to moist or wet, peaty soil.