Prasophyllum canaliculatum D.L.Jones

Plants 300–500 mm tall. Free part of leaf to 200 × 3–5 mm. Spike 50–110 mm long, 5–25-flowered. Ovary sessile, bright green. Flowers moderately crowded, scented, 14–16 × 7–9 mm, red, greenish red or brownish red, labellum reddish or brownish, callus green or reddish. Dorsal sepal 7.5–9 × 4–5 mm, decurved or recurved. Lateral sepals free, 7.5–9 × 2 mm, parallel, recurved. Petals 6.5–7.5 × 2 mm, incurved to spreading. Labellum sessile, ovate-elliptical, 6–7.5 × 5–6 mm, broadest at base, sharply recurved near apex and contracted to short tail, margins mostly entire. Callus oblong, deeply grooved, ending in short tail just beyond labellum bend.

Highly localised and rare; found growing among grass tussocks and scattered shrubs in woodland dominated by Snow Gum in freely draining, well-structured loam.