Prasophyllum sp. A sensu Harden (1993) APNI* 
Description: Terrestrial herb, 10–40 cm high.
Leaf to 30 cm high, reddish at the base.
Inflorescence numerous-flowered, moderately dense. Flowers glossy, with tints of red, brown and green, sweetly fragrant. Dorsal sepals ovate to lanceolate, 9–11 mm long, apex acuminate, decurved. Lateral sepals linear to lanceolate, 10–12 mm long, c. 1.5 mm wide, red-brown, free, both margins incurved or inrolled, surface minutely tuberculate, apex conical, acuminate, not 2-toothed. Petals linear to lanceolate, 7–9 mm long, red or brown with paler margins, widely spreading, acute, margins ± crenulate. Labellum on short claw, lanceolate, sagittate, 8–10 mm long, pale pink to deep red, basal portion ± gibbous with flared, somewhat upturned entire margins, reflexed at 90° near the midpoint; apical portion narrow-triangular, acute, margins undulate to crisped-crenulate. Callus plate a narrow tongue, greenish, deeply channelled at the bend, surface glabrous, irregularly rugulose. Column appendages oblong, pink, broadest toward the obtuse, truncateor laciniate apex.
Flowering: December–January
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in rich black-soil flats with native grasses and open woodland; from Barrington Tops to Glen Innes, now rare owing to land clearing.
NSW subdivisions: NT
Text by P. Bernhardt & R. R. Rowe
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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