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Tall multiflowered stem with green and pale green striped flowers.
The galea was shiny and striped while the lateral sepals hung down and drew back towards the stem. The hinged labellum was yellow with a dark brown stripe.

We call these Bullard Donkey-orchid.

A "Bull"dogs & Leop"ard" cross.

Id confirmed by Robert Lawrence many years ago on SANatureteers Facebook Group.

The last photo shows a comparison between Leopard, Bullard & Bulldog orchids. All photographed within about 20m or so.

https://www.ellura.info/Orchids.html#Diuris-orientis-x-pardina

https://www.facebook.com/groups/553438594757416/posts/950179141750024

In my residential garden!! First time this has popped up in 18 months of living here. No idea what fungus it could be associated with; have never seen so much as a single fruiting body come out of my dry, infertile soil, and no known ectomycorrhizal trees around.

Two colonies of just over a dozen plants each, scatted under broadleaf forest dominated by taraire, tawaroa, puriri with some nikau present. Plants with slight musty scent. Anecdotally fungal gnats seen nearby with one pictured in the third image.

The main reason I’m uploading this observation is to mark the location of a potential clean up site for National Parks.

Someone has gone camping on the pristine shores of Narrawallee Inlet and left behind rubbish strewn over a 50 metre area.

Battery powered whipper sniper, butane gas stove, Plastic bags and wrappers, 2 crab nets, PVC piping, PFAS coated cooking pans and much more. So sad that people do this.