Flower stem 50–300 mm tall, slender, pale brown, 1–5-flowered. Flowers tubular, spreading to nodding, narrow, tepal tips hardly spreading, 10–12 mm long, externally pale brown, tips whitish, smooth, internally white. Petal margins thickened, irregular. Labellum 9–11 × 3 mm, white, 3-lobed; lateral lobes small, bluntly triangular with thickened, irregular margins; midlobe with slightly thickened, irregular margins. Callus of 3 yellow ridges that coalesce into single wavy ridge and yellow glandular mass. Column 8–9 × 2.5 mm, strongly wrinkled; anther cap warty.
Highly localised, although possibly more widespread than realised; growing in dense heathy forest among accumulations of litter in damp sandy loam; also occurs in scrub and open forest with a shrubby understorey.
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