Plants 250–45 tall. Free part of leaf to 200 x 4–8mm. Spike 80–15 long, 15–45-flowered. Ovary shortly stalked, brownish. Flowers moderately crowded, scented, 15–19 x 12–15mm, dark greenish-brown to dark brownish-red, labellum greenish to greenish-pink, callus green to brown. Dorsal sepal 8–11 x 3.5–4.5mm, decurved. Lateral sepals free, 8–11 x 2mm, recurved, parallel. Petals 8.5–11.5 x 2mm, widely spreading, margins pale. Labellum stalked, broadly ovate-lanceolate, 7.5–8.5 x 4.5–5.5mm, sharply recurved near middle, constricted above middle then tapered to apex. Callus broad, with raised margins, extending nearly to labellum apex.
Restricted to montane areas growing among tussocks and low shrubs in snowgum woodland, grassy flats, treeless plains, frost hollows and among sedges and rushes in swamps in brown basaltic loam, dark loam and peaty loam.
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