Diuris pardina Lindl.

Leaves 2 or 3, 200–300 × 3–4 mm, folded. Flower stem 250–400 mm, 3–7-flowered. Flowers porrect, 15–20 mm across, dark yellow, heavily marked with dark brown spots and blotches on all segments, especially prominent on dorsal side. Dorsal sepal porrect, c. 10 × 4 mm, often almost wholly brown. Lateral sepals obliquely decurved beneath labellum, narrowly linear, 8–10 × c. 2.5 mm, dark brown with green tips. Petals obliquely erect, divergent; stalk 3–5 mm long, brown; blade ovate, 9–12 × 7–9 mm, covered with large blotches. Labellum 6–8 mm long; lateral lobes 7–9 × 1.5–2 mm, pointed; midlobe crescent-shaped with long narrow basal neck, 8–10 × 3–4 mm, heavily blotched, with broad central ridge, margins recurved. Callus ridges 2, 3–4 mm long, parallel.

Widespread and common over much of its range; growing in grassy forest, shrubby forest, sheoak woodland and heathland in a range of freely draining soils, including sand, clay loam, stony loam and gravelly loam.