Corybas acuminatus M.A. Clem. & Hatch

Plant: flowering up to 6 cm high.     

Leaf: sessile, up to 4 cm long x 2 cm broad, ovate-acuminate, repand, cordate at the base; light green above, silvery below, with conspicuous reddish veining; leaves of young plants reniform or broadly cordate, apiculate, without the reddish veining  

Bract: shortly caudate, secondary bract subulate.  

Flower: usually solitary, sessile, more or less translucent, with dull red striae. 

Dorsal sepal: up to 4 cm long, extended into a horizontal filiform cauda. 

Lateral sepals: filiform, erect and very long, exceeding the flower by as much as 6 cm. 

Lateral petals: similar, smaller, horizontal or deflexed. 

Labellum: lamina expanded, abruptly deflexed, mucronate, the margins irregularly fimbriate or entire.   

Auricles: rounded  

Column: hidden in the flower, very short, with a large basal callus, wings minutely denticulate and exceeding the anther; stigma orbicular, pollinia 4, massulate. 

Capsule: on peduncle elongating up to 18 cm high.