Rosette leaves dark green, 10–30 x 10–15mm, margins entire. Flower stem 100–35 tall. Flower leaning forwards, 20–30 x 7–9mm, bluish-green, white and brown, base bulbous, hood in long graceful curve. Dorsal sepal tip filiform, 8–1 long. Free points filiform, 25–3 long, erect. Labellum protruding prominently above sinus when set, 15–19 x 4mm, brown, blunt, sharply curved in upper half.
Localised and generally disjunct but sometimes common in montane areas, usually growing in moist forests, often on grassy slopes, flats or near streams in humus-rich loams; less commonly in drier forests on rain-shadow sites in freely draining clay loam and shallow stony soil.
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