Pterostylis rufa, commonly known as the red rustyhood is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia.

It has a rosette of leaves and up to fifteen bright reddish-brown flowers with translucent white "windows" and a dark brown, insect-like labellum.

The lateral sepals turn downwards, are about the same width as the galea, fused for more than half their length and have narrow tips 7–8 mm (0.28–0.31 in) long and spread apart from each other.

[3][4][5] Pterostylis rufa was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown and the description was published in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen.

[7] The red rustyhood widespread and locally common, growing in heathy woodland and open forest, often in shallow soil in rocky places.