Pseudobulbs erect, cylindrical or middle slightly swollen, 50–250 × 6–10 mm, dark purplish brown, becoming furrowed. Leaves 2–5, 50–100 × 15–20 mm, dark green, unequally notched. Racemes 40–80 mm long, 2–7-flowered. Flowers 15–20 × 20–25 mm, pale green or yellowish with deep purple labellum. Sepals and petals widely spreading, moderately thick-textured. Dorsal sepal 6–10 × 5 mm. Lateral sepals 8–12 × 5 mm. Petals 5–8 × 3 mm. Labellum curved, c. 10 × 7 mm; lateral lobes large, erect, triangular; midlobe broad, with 2 parallel ridges, margins erect, deeply notched.
Localised and disjunct; found growing on shrubs and trees with rough, stringy or flaky bark, including eucalypts and bloodwoods, in humid open forest and rocky slopes close to gullies with ephemeral streams. It also occurs on trees growing in stream beds, springs, seepage areas, deep gullies or around the margins of large granite sheets.
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