Pterostylis macilenta (D.L.Jones) G.N.Backh.

Rosette stalk 30–6
 long; leaves 3–6, 10–35 x 3–7mm, margins often crinkled. Flower stem 150–35
 tall; stem leaves 4–6, 25–80 x 3–10mm. Flowers 1–6, relatively crowded, 16–20 x 7–8.5mm, dark translucent green with darker green lines and transparent areas. Dorsal sepal tip brown to orange-brown. Lateral sepals about as wide as galea, 10–15 x 7–8.5mm, margins curved, tips brown to orange-brown. Petals without basal flanges, 11–14 x 2–2.5mm, outer margin nearly straight. Labellum 5.5–7 x 2–2.5mm, broadest at base then tapered, pale yellow to brown with dark brown to blackish basal mound and central stripe; surface cells long and hair-like over most of labellum; midlobe narrow.

Locally common, growing from the valleys and lower slopes and ridges onto mountain peaks in moist to wet shrubby forest in freely draining gravelly or loamy soil.