Common name: Purple Diuris, Purple Donkey Orchid
Diuris punctata var. punctata Sm. APNI* 
Description: Terrestrial herb.
Leaves 2, linear, 15–30 cm long, 3–4 mm wide, conduplicate.
Raceme 30–60 cm high, 1–10-flowered. Flowers mauve or purple with darker markings and suffusions, 5–6 c. across. Dorsal sepal broadly ovate to elliptic, 10–18 mm long, 8–14 mm wide, obliquely erect, margins often recurved. Lateral sepals linear to lanceolate, 30–50 mm long, 2–4 mm wide, deflexed. Petals erect; lamina ovate to broad-ovate, 7–17 mm long, 7–15 mm wide; claw 2–6 mm long, dark-coloured. Labellum 9–15 mm long; lateral lobes linear to cuneate, 3–5 mm long, 1.5–4 mm wide, margins entire or irregular; midlobe broad-ovate to reniform or circular when flattened, 10–15 mm wide, ridged along midline; callus of 2 widely divergent ridges c. 5 mm long, surrounding area yellow.
Flowering: September–December
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in grassland, sclerophyll forest and heath.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, NT, CT, ST, NWS, CWS
Other Australian states: Qld Vic. S.A.
Text by D. L. Jones
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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