Flowering amongst large colonies of leaves the tiny flowers of the Autumn Wasp Orchid, Chiloglottis curviclavia, are greenish brown to purplish.
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Autumn Wasp Orchid leaves
The labellum is densely covered with glossy black calli with a large stalked gland at the base.
This year they flowered early, in late January, but there are still some buds so we are waiting hopefully for a little rain. Paired green leaves indicate the presence of this orchid but there are always many more leaves than flowers.
Alison Watson and Margaret MacDonald