Pterostylis laxa Blackmore

Rosette leaves 3–5, ovate, 12–25 x 8–16mm, bright green, margins entire. Flower stem 200–40
 tall. Flower leaning forwards, 18–22 x 9–12mm, green, white and dark brown, hood curved in semicircle, free points sometimes reddish. Dorsal sepal tip thinly tapered, 8–1
 long. Sinus flat in side view, broad and notched in front view. Free points filiform, erect, recurved or spreading, 30–3
 long, divergent. Labellum curved, protruding when set, 10–13 x 4mm, reddish or blackish, pointed.

Widespread and sometimes locally common in highlands and tablelands, growing in grassy areas and among shrubs and rocks in tall forest and open forest in freely draining gravelly loam.