Plants 200–40 tall. Free part of leaf to 250 x 4–7mm. Spike 60–10 long, 10–30 flowered. Ovary shortly stalked. Flowers moderately crowded, strongly scented, 12–15 x 8–10mm, greenish-brown with white petal tips, labellum white, callus green to yellowish-green. Dorsal sepal 9.5–10.5 x 4.8mm, decurved. Lateral sepals free, 10–12 x 3mm, obliquely erect, divergent. Petals 9–11 x 2mm, porrect or incurved. Labellum sessile, narrowly ovate-lanceolate, sharply recurved back on itself near middle, 9–11 x 5–5.5mm, margins strongly wavy/crinkled. Callus ending just beyond labellum bend, apex notched.
Widespread but localised, growing in dense low heath on coastal bluffs, headlands and consolidated dunes in sand and sand over limestone; also in taller heathy coastal peppermint scrub.
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