Flowering amongst large colonies of leaves the tiny flowers of the Autumn Wasp Orchid, Chiloglottis curviclavia, are greenish brown to purplish.
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