Leaf 50–150 × 3–8 mm. Flower stem 150–300 mm tall, 1-or 2-flowered. Flowers 10–30 mm across, pale yellowish green with reddish markings, sometimes wholly reddish; sepals with thread-like apical portion that ends in pale brown club 1–4 mm long; petals with short recurved or coiled tips. Dorsal sepal erect to recurved, 20–30 × 2–2.5 mm. Lateral sepals stiffly decurved, 20–30 × 4–7 mm. Petals recurved, 12–20 × 1.5–3 mm. Labellum 8–12 × 11–17 mm, yellowish green with faint, red, radiating lines; margins entire; apex with small, recurved, maroon lobe. Calli clubbed, purplish red, to 1.5 mm long, in dense central band. Column 10–12 × 4–6 mm, yellowish with red markings.
Widespread and common; growing in mallee vegetation, shrubland, woodland and around margins of salt lakes and granite outcrops in freely draining sands and loams.
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