Leaf 150–300 mm long; free part 15–25 mm long, ending well below flowers. Spike 20–35 mm long, 15–25-flowered. Flowers moderately crowded, semi-nodding, 8 × 7 mm, greenish with purplish brown stripes and purplish labellum. Dorsal sepal 4.5 × 2.5 mm; margins sparsely hairy; apex sharply pointed. Lateral sepals divergent, 6.5 × 1 mm; base humped; apex sharply pointed. Petals 3.5 × 1.2 mm, spreading; margins hairy; apex sharply pointed. Labellum tremulous, narrowly oblong, 4 × 2 mm, thin-textured; margins with numerous red hairs; apex sharply pointed, recurved. Callus short, club-shaped, extending about halfway to labellum apex. Column wings glabrous or with very short teeth.
Highly localised on a few mountain tops, growing among shrubs and grass tussocks in shallow soil on rock ledges, crevices and rock plates.
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