[1] Found on dead and living branches of tea-tree, paperbark and banksia in long-unburnt coastal stands in Victoria, this firm-textured, brown, irregularly shaped species forms a raised mass which clasps dead branches with light brown, finger-like lobes.

This species of Hypocreopsis was discovered at Arthurs Pass National Park, Canterbury in 1983 in South Island of New Zealand and in 1992 in Nyora, Victoria Australia during a survey of vascular plants.

In Victoria, H. amplectens' (common name Tea-tree Fingers)' has been classified as "vulnerable" under the Victorian Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988, and the Adams Creek Conservation Reserve west of Nyora, was created partly because of its occurrence there.

This new population has had the largest number of individual fruiting bodies recorded on new host plant the Yarra Burgan (Kunzea leptospermoides).

Since 2016 repeated visits the Adams Creek and Grantville Nature Conservation Reserves have confirmed small populations survive, however recent surveys of the original location in Greens Bush, on the Mornington Peninsula have resulted in no sightings.