Rosette absent or on lateral growth; leaves 3–5, elliptic, 30–80 × 8–14 mm, bluish green. Flower stem 120–350 mm tall, 5–30-flowered. Flowers 10–14 mm long, light greenish or reddish with clubbed reddish or purplish labellum glands. Dorsal sepal 8–11 × 2 mm. Lateral sepals 5–7 × 1–1.5 mm. Petals 5–7 × 1 mm. Labellum stalk c. 4 mm long. Labellum lamina c. 5 × 1 mm, pale green with reddish base; free basal part of labellum c. 2 mm long. Callus c. 2.5 mm long; central area with clubbed calli 0.5–1.5 mm long; limb of callus c. 1.8 mm long, apex c. 1.5 mm wide, notched, with shiny, blackish warts.
Widespread and common in coastal and near-coastal ranges; growing among shrubs and in open areas of forest, woodland, wallum and heathland in freely draining to moisture-retentive sands, gravels and clay loams.
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