Plants 100–20 tall. Free part of leaf to 100 x 3–5mm. Spike 40–8 long, 3–12-flowered. Ovaries stalked, turgid, warty (sometimes smooth). Flowers well-spaced, lightly scented, 7–11 x 5–8mm, greenish with brown tints, labellum greenish-white or pinkish, callus green. Segments thick-textured. Dorsal sepal 5–7 x 2.5–3mm, incurved. Lateral sepals free, flat, 5–7 x 1.5–2mm, erect to recurved, parallel or slightly divergent. Petals 5–6 x 1.5mm, porrect to spreading. Labellum shortly stalked, ovate-lanceolate, 4.5–5.5 x 3–3.5mm, sharply recurved near middle, sparsely papillate, margins irregularly crinkled and papillate. Callus broad, flat, margins sparsely papillate, extending well past labellum bend.
Widespread but disjunct, growing in mallee shrubland, broombush and heath in clay loam and red to brown loam over terra rossa limestone.
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