Leaf 40–60 × 1–2 mm. Flower stem 50–150 mm tall, 1–4-flowered. Flowers 8–10 × 16–20 mm, internally white with pink flush, tips darker pink, externally pale pink to brownish, labellum white, basal calli yellow, main calli white, midlobe red to purple, column greenish with red markings. Dorsal sepal 9–11 × 3–3.5 mm. Lateral sepals 11–13 × 3.3–4 mm, divergent. Petals 10–11 × 2 mm, spreading and slightly decurved to drooping. Labellum 6–6.5 × 4–4.3 mm, very obscurely 3-lobed; margins with numerous, narrow, stalked teeth; midlobe recurved, with shorter narrow, stalked teeth. Basal calli 4, c. 0.6 mm long, yellow; lamina calli c. 1 mm long, white, crowded, in 4 rows to base of midlobe. Column 5–6 × 1.5 mm.
Highly localised, ranging from near the coast to the mountains; growing among shrubs in open forest and heathy forest in freely draining, sandy soil and clay loam.
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