Plants compact. Pseudobulbs crowded, ovoid to conical, 5–8 × 4–6 mm, surface furrowed and minutely warty, when young covered with white, felted bracts. Leaves ovate, 20–35 × 4–6 mm, dark green, tough. Racemes with thread-like stems 15–40 mm long, minutely warty, 1–4-flowered. Flowers 5–6 × 3.5–4.5 mm, yellowish to whitish with orange labellum. Ovary densely warty. Sepals and petals not widely spreading. Dorsal sepal 3.5–4.5 × 1–1.3 mm. Lateral sepals 3.5–4.5 × 1.5–1.8 mm. Petals c. 1 × 0.7 mm. Labellum curved, c. 3 × 2 mm, thick, fleshy, base channelled. Callus of 2 central ridges. Capsule c. 6 × 3 mm, strongly warty.
An uncommon, sporadic, disjunctly distributed and easily overlooked species from highland rainforest that usually grows on the upper branches of trees where there is sufficient light and abundant air movement. Most plants are found on fallen branches after storms. A population at Enfield grows on native cherry (Exocarpos cupressiformis). On Lord Howe Island it grows on stunted trees and rocks.
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