Pseudobulbs projecting from host, 50–300 × 1–3 mm, narrowly linear, grooved, dark plum coloured. Leaves 1–2, 20–65 × 10–40 mm, thin but leathery. Racemes 1–2, 8–25 mm long, 1–6-flowered. Flowers 10–14 × 10–15 mm, opening greenish yellow with cream centre, quickly becoming apricot-coloured, labellum with purplish bars. Sepals and petals relatively broad, widely spreading. Dorsal sepal 12–14 × 2.5–3.5 mm. Lateral sepals 11–13 × 3–3.5 mm. Petals 11–13 × 1.5 mm. Labellum 5–6 × 6–7 mm, curved; lateral lobes erect, pointed; midlobe decurved, shortly pointed, with 3 yellow keels, central keel prominent, wavy, extending nearly to labellum apex.
Highly localised; found growing in or close to rainforest at moderate to high elevations, often on exposed ridge tops. Favours Stringy-bark Cypress Pine (Callitris macleayana) as a host, but also grows on various shrubby myrtles (species of Gossia, Rhodamnia and Rhodomyrtus), especially at high altitude.
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