Clumps pendulous, sparse, attached only by roots from basal nodes. Stems few, sparsely branched, 100–300 mm long, with brown bracts. Roots from basal nodes and stem branches. Pseudobulbs partly covered by bracts, 5–8 × 4–5 mm. Leaves sessile, 12–30 × 4–6 mm, dark green, fleshy, broadly and deeply grooved. Flower stems solitary or in pairs, 4–6 mm long. Flowers 10–15 × 12–15 mm, cream to greenish cream. Sepals and petals fleshy, sepal tips long and thread-like. Dorsal sepal 9–12 × 3.5–4.5 mm. Lateral sepals 9–12 × 3.5–4.5 mm. Petals 2–3 × 1.5 mm. Labellum fleshy, 2–2.5 × 1.6–2 mm, curved in a semi-circle.
Highly localised at high altitudes; found growing on upper branches of trees along ridge tops where there is strong air movement, mists and clouds; often grows on large, old trees of stringy-bark cypress pine.
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