Plants 250–40 tall. Free part of leaf to 150 x 3–6mm. Spike cylindrical, 50–8 long, 10–40-flowered. Ovary shortly stalked, bright green, shiny. Flowers densely crowded, opening very widely, lemon-scented, 8–10 x 6–8mm, pale green with pink suffusions, labellum pinkish to mauve, callus green. Dorsal sepal 5–6 x 2.5–3mm, decurved or recurved. Lateral sepals free, 5–6 x 1–1.4mm, erect or recurved, parallel. Petals 5–6 x 1mm, widely spreading, with strongly recurved tips. Labellum shortly stalked, obliquely erect to erect, ovate-lanceolate, 4–4.5 x 3–3.5mm, recurved at a shallow angle near middle, margins slightly crinkled. Callus fleshy, channelled, extending nearly to labellum apex, smooth or sometimes with few papillae.
Highly localised and restricted to subalpine herbfield, growing among grass swards, snowgrass tussocks and forbs in freely draining brown loam.
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