Plants 400–1,10 tall. Free part of leaf to 200 x 88–12mm. Spike 150–25 long, 15–30-flowered. Ovary shortly stalked, green, shiny. Flowers moderately crowded, unscented or lightly scented, 15–20 x 16–20mm, greenish to brownish, petals white with brown median band, labellum white, callus green. Dorsal sepal 9.5–11 x 5mm. Lateral sepals free, 10–12 x 2.5mm, widely divergent. Petals 10–11 x 2.3mm, spreading, margins white. Labellum sessile, ovate-lanceolate, 11–13 x 5.5–6.5mm, sharply recurved back on itself near middle, distal margins wavy/crinkled. Callus raised, fleshy, channelled, ending just beyond labellum bend. Column c.3.5 x 3.5mm.
Highly localised, growing among shrubs and grass in high-rainfall, tall eucalypt forest dominated by black peppermint (Eucalyptus amygdalina) in well-structured brown loam.
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