Clumps pendulous, attached only by roots from basal nodes. Stems few, sparsely branched, 50–250 mm long, with brown bracts. Pseudobulbs 5–6 × 3–4 mm, partly enclosed by bracts. Leaves sessile, 30–60 × 6–8 mm, thick, fleshy, dark green, narrowly and shallowly grooved. Flowers in groups of 1–3; stems 3–5 mm long; flowers 5–6 × 5–6 mm, cream or pale green with brown to orange labellum, base hidden by bracts. Sepals and petals fleshy, sepals narrowed into thick points. Dorsal sepal 5–7 × 1.5–2 mm. Lateral sepals 5–7 × 1.5–2 mm. Petals c. 1.5 × 0.5 mm. Labellum c. 1 × 0.7 mm, fleshy, reflexed at right angles near middle.
Locally common; usually growing on trunks and branches of rainforest trees on ridge tops where there is abundant air movement, clouds and mist; occasionally also growing on treefern trunks and relict trees left in paddocks.
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