Leaf 200–350 mm long; free part 20–30 mm long, ending below flowers. Spike 10–60 mm long, 5–30-flowered. Flowers moderately crowded, porrect, 12 × 10 mm, green to greenish brown with red stripes and pale red labellum. Dorsal sepal 5 × 2.8 mm; margins hairy; apex sharply pointed. Lateral sepals widely divergent, 6 × 1.5 mm; apex sharply pointed. Petals 3 × 1 mm, spreading; margins hairy; apex sharply pointed. Labellum tremulous, narrowly oblong, enlarged at apex, 4.5 × 1.5 mm, thin-textured; margins with long red hairs; apex sharply pointed. Callus plate-like, tapered, extending nearly to labellum apex.
Widespread and locally common, ranging from near-coastal areas into mountains. Found growing in open forest, heathy forest, heath and moss gardens over sandstone and granite sheets.
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