Leaf incompletely developed at flowering; mature leaf heart-shaped, 15–40 × 10–20 mm, ground-hugging, dark green above with bristles and ridges, purple to red beneath, often glabrous with age. Flower stem 70–220 mm long, hairy, 1–3-flowered. Flowers 10–15 × 7–10 mm, dorsal sepal and petals brownish with pale tips, lateral sepals white with pink tinges or pink lines, labellum green with red or white bristles. Dorsal sepal 7–9 × 2.5–3 mm. Lateral sepals 12–18 × 2.5–4 mm. Petals 7–9 × 1 mm. Labellum 6–8 × 3 mm when flattened; midlobe ovate to elliptic, 3–3.5 × 3 mm, fleshy, with separate tufts of red/purple and white bristles.
Occurs mainly in hilly country, growing in heathy or grassy woodland in freely draining, gravelly clay, sand and loam; also occurs in shallow soil around rocks.
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