Leaf 250–600 × 5–8 mm. Inflorescence tapered or pyramidal, 200–500 mm long, 20–150-flowered. Flowers crowded, 5–6 × 2.5–4 mm, pale green to yellowish green or whitish green. Dorsal sepal porrect to obliquely erect, 3–3.5 × 2–2.5 mm, tip upcurved. Lateral sepals recurved, ovate-lanceolate, 2–2.5 × 1 mm, apex pointed. Petals erect inside dorsal sepal, linear, 1.6–2 × 0.6 mm, blunt. Labellum decurved close to ovary, oblong to oblong-tapered, 2–3.5 × 1–1.6 mm, thin-textured, margins irregular or with bite-like incisions and few or no cell-clusters, apex prominently notched. Basal callus of 2 separate, dark green, relatively long, comma-shaped mounds; apical callus small, raised, granular.
Common in coastal scrub, open forest and woodland, growing in freely draining to seasonally moist sand, laterite and gravelly loam; also colonises disturbed sites, especially road verges.
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