Plants 60–150 mm tall. Free part of leaf to150 × 1–2 mm. Spike 80–250 mm long, 5–30-flowered. Ovary sessile, green shiny, projecting at wide angle. Flowers well-spaced to moderately crowded, scented, 7–10 × 5 mm, usually pale green to yellowish green, rarely wholly brown or red, callus light green. Dorsal sepal 4.5–5.5 × 1.5 mm, decurved. Lateral sepals fused basally, 5.5–6.5 × 1 mm, with thin terete points. Petals 4 × 1 mm, porrect. Labellum shortly stalked, ovate-lanceolate, sharply recurved near middle, c. 3 × 2 mm, margins crinkled. Callus extending well beyond labellum bend where very narrow.
Widespread and common; found growing in sparse to shrubby forest, woodland, granite outcrops, winter-wet seepage areas and flats in laterite, sand and loam.