It is only known from five population on grassy alpine plains with the total number of individual plants less than five hundred.

The flowers are lightly scented, greenish with pink or reddish markings and as with others in the genus, are inverted so that the labellum is above the column rather than below it.

[2] Prasophyllum niphopedium was first formally described in 2000 by David Jones and the description was published in The Orchadian from a specimen collected in the Cobberas Range.

[1] The marsh leek orchid grows on snow plains in grassy alpine heath, usually near watercourses in the Cobberas Range and Benambra area.

The main threats to the species are soil disturbance and grazing by feral horses and cattle and inappropriate fire regimes.