Flora of New Zealand Series

Terrestrial herb; stolons very slender to filiform, bearing several subcompressed, subglobose bladders ± 1.5-2.5 mm diam. Lvs radical, deciduous, (5)-10-15-(25) mm long, narrow, linear to spathulate, entire. Scape slender, ± 2-10 cm long, erect, 1-(2)-flowered; bracts minute, ovate-triangular. Calyx-lobes broadly ovate-oblong, obtuse. Corolla bright to deep purple, with yellow eye, very rarely whitish; upper lip 2-3 mm diam., suborbicular, ± retuse; lower lip (5)-9-12 mm wide, usually broader than long, sometimes almost semicircular; palate with yellow mark towards base; spur c. 3 mm long, obtuse. Capsule 3-5 mm diam., subglobose-obovoid.

N.; S.; St.: lowland to montane from 39° southwards.

Also indigenous to Tasmania.

Bogs and very damp ground.

FL Nov-Mar.