Leaf ovate to oblong or lanceolate, 80–130 × 15–20 mm, hairy. Flower stem 100–200 mm tall, sturdy, densely hairy, 1-flowered. Flowers 30–40 mm across, greenish yellow to brownish with reddish central stripes; sepals with yellowish to brown clubs 3–8 × 1 mm; petals lacking clubs. Dorsal sepal strongly incurved, 35–45 × 3–4 mm. Lateral sepals obliquely decurved, 30–40 × 3.5–4.5 mm, nearly parallel or crossed. Petals spreading or upcurved, 22–30 × 2–2.5 mm. Labellum delicately hinged, 13–16 × 13–16.5 mm, green to brownish with a yellowish central patch and maroon apex; basal margins with 5 or 6 pairs of thin green comb-teeth to 5 mm long; midlobe margins with numerous short red teeth; tip recurved. Basal calli c. 2 mm long. Lamina calli to 1.5 mm long, dark maroon, in 4 crowded rows onto base of maroon patch. Column incurved, 11–13 × 4–5 mm, transparent with reddish streaks; basal glands c. 2.5 mm long, club-shaped, yellow with a dark red basal stalk, shiny.
Widely distributed in W inland areas; growing among scattered shrubs, spinifex (Triodia) clumps and forbs in open woodland and in mallee and mallee/broom bush communities in freely draining sand or red to brown loam over sheet limestone.
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