Dipodium roseum D.L.Jones & M.Clements

Plant leafless. Basal bracts overlapping, dark red-black, pointed. Flower stem 0.4–1 m tall, green to blackish, 15–50-flowered. Ovaries straight, greenish to reddish purple, smooth or slightly warty, unspotted. Flowers 20–30 mm across, pale pink to bright rosy pink with small dark red spots, sometimes unspotted. Sepals and petals with recurved tips. Dorsal sepal 14–20 × 3–6 mm. Lateral sepals 14–20 × 3–6 mm. Petals 13–19 × 4–6 mm. Labellum 10–15 × 4–6.5 mm, pink with darker pink lines; lateral lobes 3–4 × 1 mm, sparsely hairy on inside base; midlobe 6–9 × 4–6.5 mm, with broad patch of pink hairs, margins recurved. Callus ridges c. 3 × 0.5 mm, parallel, hairy. Column c. 5 × 2 mm, white. Capsules dark reddish brown.

Widespread and common from coast to ranges, less common W of the divide and in inland areas; found growing in habitats from coastal scrub and drier forests and woodlands to wetter forests and tall, closed forests in freely draining soils including sandy loam, gravels, clay loam, stony soils and rich mountain loam.

It is almost impossible to grow this species at present. It may be possible to grow it from seed in lots of sawdust near Eucalypt trees.