Leaf oblong-lanceolate, 80–180 × 15–20 mm, bright green, shiny, nearly glabrous apart from some tiny marginal hairs. Flower stem 150–300 mm tall, hairy, sturdy, 1-flowered. Flowers 40–45 mm across, pale yellowish green with red central stripes; sepals with rigid, thin, green or brown clubs 6–10 × 0.6 mm long; petals lacking clubs. Dorsal sepal erect, 30–40 × 2–3 mm. Lateral sepals stiffly and obliquely decurved, 30–40 × 5–6 mm, parallel or crossed. Petals stiffly decurved, 25–35 × 1.5–2 mm. Labellum delicately hinged, 12–15 × 12–15 mm, base pale green, with prominent, white central patch and maroon apex; basal margins with 3 or 4 pairs of thin, green comb-teeth to 6 mm long; midlobe margins with several pairs of short, blunt teeth; tip recurved. Basal calli c. 2 mm long. Lamina calli to 1.5 mm long, red, in 4 uncrowded rows onto base of maroon patch. Column incurved, translucent with reddish markings; basal glands shiny yellow.
Localised and uncommon; growing on sheltered slopes among rocks, shrubs and spinifex (Triodia) clumps in Callitris woodland and mallee communities, in freely draining loam, often close to rocks and gaining runoff from rainfall.
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