Pseudobulbs spindle-shaped, 200–500 × 30–40 mm, hard, dark brownish green, prominently ribbed. Leaves 2–7, 60–150 × 40–60 mm, thin-textured but leathery, dark green. Racemes 200–350 mm long, 10–35-flowered. Flowers 16–20 × 20–25 mm, cream or white, fragrant, crowded, yellowish with age. Sepals and petals widely spreading, narrow, pointed. Dorsal sepal 16–22 × 3–4 mm. Lateral sepals 16–22 × 2.5–4.5 mm. Petals 16–22 × 2 mm. Labellum c. 8 × 7 mm, white with purple markings; lateral lobes crescent-shaped; midlobe oblong, with single orange ridge, tip cut off square.
Widespread and common on ranges and tablelands and extending to the western slopes in some areas, less common on the coast. It grows high in the canopy of a wide range of rainforest trees, but is most often seen growing on sheoaks on humid slopes in open forest, near streams and also on rocks.
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