Leaf 100–180 mm long; free part 10–15 mm long, ending just below first flower. Spike 8–15 mm long, 1–8-flowered. Flowers moderately crowded, semi-nodding, 7–8 × 5.5 mm, green with pink to reddish markings and hairs. Dorsal sepal 4.5–5 × 3.5 mm; margins glabrous. Lateral sepals widely divergent, 5–5.5 × 1.5 mm, base red, not humped. Petals 4.3–4.6 × 1.5 mm, with red margins and three red central stripes; margins glabrous or with few short hairs towards base. Labellum stiffly hinged, oblong (ovate when flattened), c. 4.3 × 2.6 mm, pink to purplish-red; margins darker with numerous short, pink to purplish hairs to 0.6 mm long. Callus dark red, broadest near base then sharply tapered, extending to labellum apex.
Generally uncommon in small, scattered localities; growing among low heathy shrubs in very shallow, well-drained sandy loam over sandstone rock sheets; also in heathy open forest, often under tall Kunzea, in sandy loam.
Home