Leaf 250–650 × 5–8 mm. Inflorescence 200–600 mm long, 10–150-flowered. Flowers crowded, 3–3.5 × 2.5–3 mm, pale green to yellowish green. Dorsal sepal porrect to obliquely erect, c. 3 × 2 mm, apex shortly pointed. Lateral sepals inrolled, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, c. 1.5 × 0.4 mm, tapered to a long point. Petals linear-oblong, c. 2 × 0.6 mm, blunt, erect within dorsal sepal. Labellum porrect at base then decurved, narrowly oblong, 2.5–3 × 1.5–1.8 mm, margins thick with numerous prominent groups of cell-clusters; apex broadly and shallowly notched. Basal callus of 2 separate, large, dark green, comma-like mounds; apical callus raised, granular.
Widespread and common on the coast and inland; growing in a range of habitats with moisture-retentive soil, especially near streams, seasonal watercourses and swamps, but also on coastal sandhills, granite outcrops and in open forest.
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