Rosette leaves dark green, 10–25 × 10–15 mm, margins crinkled. Flower stem 150–450 mm tall. Flower erect, 23–27 × 12–15 mm, dark green, white and reddish brown, hood in long graceful curve. Sinus abruptly and sharply protruding like platform in side view, upward-facing. Dorsal sepal tip filiform, 10–18 mm long. Free points filiform, 30–40 mm long. Labellum tip just visible above sinus when set, 13–15 × 4 mm, dark brown, blunt.
Locally common, mainly growing in high rainfall montane forests of ranges and tablelands on peaks, ridges, slopes, stream banks and among rocks and tussocks in rich loam.