Pterostylis parca commonly known as the Lithgow leafy greenhood is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. Non-flowering plants have a rosette of leaves on a short stalk. Flowering plants lack a rosette but have up to eight translucent pale green flowers on a flowering stem with three to six stem leaves. Description Pterostylis parca, is a terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, herb with an underground tuber. Non-flowering plants have a rosette of between three and four narrow egg-shaped leaves, each leaf long and wide on a stalk high. Flowering plants have up to eight translucent pale green flowers on a flowering spike high. The flowering spike has between five and seven stem leaves which are long and wide. The flowers are long, wide. The dorsal sepal and petals are joined to form a hood over the column with the dorsal sepal having a brown tip. The lateral sepals turn downwards and are long, wide and joined to each other for more than half their length. The labellum is about long, wide, reddish-brown and hairy with a dark stripe along its mid-line. Flowering occurs from August to October. Taxonomy and naming The Lithgow leafy greenhood was first formally described in 2006 by David Jones who gave it the name Bunochilus parcus and published the description in Australian Orchid Research from a specimen collected near Lithgow. In 2010, Gary Backhouse changed the name to Pterostylis parca. The specific epithet (parca) is a Latin word meaning "frugal", "scanty", "thrifty" or "penurious", referring to the small labellum of this species. Distribution and habitat Pterostylis parca grows in moist places in forest in the Lithgow and Bathurst areas. References parca Orchids of New South Wales Plants described in 2006