Leaf rounded, 10–30 × 10–25 mm, green on both surfaces. Flower stem 50–200 mm long, very thin, wiry, 2–14-flowered. Flowers 4–6 mm long, pale green, pale brown or reddish with a greenish brown to pinkish labellum. Dorsal sepal erect, 6–7 × 1–1.3 mm, not incurved. Lateral sepals 6–7 × 1 mm, deflexed below labellum, often crossed. Petals 7–8 × 1 mm, spreading or reflexed down. Labellum ovate to wedge-shaped, 4–5 × 3 mm, projecting obliquely downwards, margins entire, apex shortly pointed.
Highly localised; growing among thick scrub and heath on gentle slopes, flats and along margins of swamps, the orchid plants hidden by low shrubs and grasstrees in moist to wet, sandy or peaty soil.
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