Leaf broadly linear, 70–90 × 15–18 mm, purple-red beneath. Flower stem 150–200 mm tall, 1–3-flowered. Flowers small, c. 30 mm across, yellowish green with red lines, dots and suffusions; sepals abruptly narrowed before expanding to a red club 3–4 mm long; petals lacking clubs. Dorsal sepal erect and incurved, 15–20 × 1–1.5 mm. Lateral sepals spreading with decurved tips, 15–20 × 2–2.5 mm. Petals nearly horizontal with tips decurved, 15–20 × 1.5–2 mm. Labellum 6–8 × 3–4 mm, cream to yellowish green with red radiating stripes and a maroon apex; margins with cream to red teeth to 3 mm long; tip recurved. Calli to 1 mm long, maroon, in 4 rows with a wide central gap. Column 7–8 × 2–3 mm, translucent with red markings; basal glands c. 2 mm long, ovoid, yellow.
Highly localised and rare, known only from two localities and about four small populations, one in a nature reserve; growing in mixed wandoo/jarrah woodland in freely draining, gravelly soil on the tops of lateritic ridges. At Kukerin it grows in mallee woodland.
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