Burnettia

Burnettia cuneata, commonly known as lizard orchid, is the only species of the flowering plant genus Burnettia in the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It is a leafless terrestrial, mycotrophic herb with one or two leaf-like bracts and up to seven flowers that are brownish on the back and pink or white inside. It is endemic to southeastern Australia where it grows in dense thickets in swamps.

==Description== Burnettia cuneata is a leafless, mycotrophic herb with a single leaf-like, lance-shaped to egg-shaped bract long and wide near its base. The fleshy, dark purplish brown flowering stem is high and bears up to seven flowers. The flowers are long, wide, brownish on the back and pink or white inside. The sepals and petals are lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide with the dorsal sepal forming a hood over the column. The labellum has dark red stripes and is wedge-shaped, long with two longitudinal ridges along its midline. Flowering occurs between September and December but nearly always only after fires the previous summer.