Corybas barbarae D.L.Jones

Leaf round to cordate, 20–30 × 20–30 mm, dark green or reddish green above, mid-vein whitish, underside silvery green or reddish. Flower leaning forwards on a stalk 1–2 mm long, 25–30 × 12–15 mm, sparkling white or pinkish. Dorsal sepal broadly elliptical when flattened, 27–32 × 15–20 mm, curved, bulbous, much longer than labellum. Lateral sepals c. 2 mm long. Petals c. 1 mm long. Labellum white, dark purple blotch on inner base, mostly hidden by dorsal sepal; labellum tube c. 4 mm long; margins sharply recurved, densely covered with bristly hairs c. 0.25 mm long; lamina obovate in front view, 9–11 × 6–7 mm. Spurs 4–4.5 mm long. Column 4.5–5 mm long.

Widespread and often common in sheltered habitats; in southern parts of its range it mainly grows in coastal lowlands and adjacent ranges in scrub, heath, heathy forest and littoral rainforest in sandy soil, extending to wetter forests on tablelands in some areas; in northern parts its of range it is restricted to higher ranges and tablelands, growing among rocks, litter, shrubs and bracken on sheltered ridges, south-facing slopes, wetter areas of open forest and sheoak groves in gravel, stony loam and clay loam.