Plants porrect to semi-pendulous, usually consisting of single growth curving up near apex. Stems 100–300 × 5 mm. Leaves 3–10, tips drooping, often twisted, 150–250 × 30–40 mm, light green with numerous veins. Racemes pendulous, 100–250 mm long, multiflowered. Flowers facing downwards, 6–8 × 5–7 mm, pale green to dark green with numerous crimson spots and suffusions, rarely wholly green, fragrant. Sepals and petals narrow, widely spreading, tips usually incurved. Dorsal sepal 3–3.5 × 1 mm. Lateral sepals 3–3.5 × 0.8 mm. Petals 3–3.5 × 1mm. Labellum hinged, c. 2.5 × 3 mm; lateral lobes triangular, c. 1.5 × 1.5 mm; spur c. 1 mm long, tapered, hollow.
Localised and once much more common than nowadays; found in subtropical and warm temperate regions this orchid grows on shrubs and trees in coastal rainforest developed on stabilised dunes, subtropical rainforest on floodplains, on ridge tops and humid slopes in drier types of forest and partially deciduous vine thickets; in tropical regions it is mainly found in highland rainforests on tablelands, but extends into gallery forests and wet lowland forests in some areas.
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