Leaf 80–140 × 7–8 mm. Flower stem 150–400 mm tall, 1-or 2-flowered. Flowers 40–50 mm across, yellowish to bright rosy pink; sepals with brown to black clubs 5–20 mm long; petals lacking clubs. Dorsal sepal incurved, 30–45 × 3–3.5 mm. Lateral sepals spreading stiffly with drooping tips, 30–45 × 3–4.5 mm, widely divergent. Petals similarly arranged, 20–25 × 2 mm. Labellum 9–11 × 5–6 mm, cream to yellowish; margins with 5–8 pairs of cream to reddish teeth to 2 mm long; tip recurved. Basal calli c. 1 mm long, erect. Lamina calli to 1.3 mm long, cream to reddish, in 4 rows. Column 8–10 × 4–5 mm, translucent yellow; basal glands c. 1 mm long, obovoid, yellow.
Highly localised and, although once locally common, now rarely seen. Found growing in heathland and heathy forest in freely draining, sandy and gravelly soils.
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