Rosette leaves 5–12, elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, 10–30 x 6–12mm. Flower stem 100–25 tall, 1.5–2. across, 1–10-flowered. Stem bracts 2–3. Flowers porrect to semi-nodding, 13–16 x 5mm, green and brown with translucent areas, lateral sepals often wholly red-brown. Dorsal sepal point acuminate, 1.5– long, upcurved. Lateral sepals narrower than hood, concave, tapered into free points; free points 4– long, narrowly tapered, parallel to weakly divergent, margins incurved. Petals with relatively small basal flanges, 8–9 x 2.5mm. Labellum c.4 x 2mm, fleshy, brown, broadly channelled, apex pointed; margins with 12–24 white bristles 1–2. long; basal lobe thick, wider than blade, with numerous very short bristles.
Widespread and disjunct, sometimes locally common, growing under eucalypts and native pines in drier open forests and woodland, stunted forests and mallee-broombush communities, usually in infertile shallow stony or gravelly soils; also in shallow soils on rocky slopes and outcrops.
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