Isophysis tasmanica T.Moore

Leaves 5-30 cm long, 3-5 mm wide, tough, striate, glaucous with brown scarious margins. Scape terete, unbranched, exceeding leaves, smooth, bearing 1 or 2 lanceolate reduced leaves 3-8 cm long. Spathes 2.5-4.5 cm long, 5-8 mm wide, pale brown, caducous. Sepals and petals 2-4 cm long, 3-9 mm wide, dark purple-brown. Filaments 4-5 mm long; anthers 4-6 mm long, yellow. Ovary 4-6 mm long; style c. 3 mm long; stigmatic lobes 1-2 mm long. Capsule acute, 1.2-2 cm long, prominently veined, shiny; pedicel elongating, up to 6 cm long. Seeds angular, 2 mm long, brown.

Grows on exposed summits of mountains near the west coast and on peaty moors to sea level.