Rosette leaves 3–8, ovate, bluish-green, 6–20 x 4–17mm, margins entire. Flower stem 90–17 tall, scabrous, with 4–6 stem leaves to 30 x 5mm. Flower erect, 22–30 x 10–12mm, green, brownish to red-brown and white, boldly striped. Dorsal sepal sharply pointed. Sinus curved in side view, shallowly notched in front view, scabrous. Free points filiform, 30–3 long, divergent, tips curved forwards. Labellum shallowly curved, hidden in flower or tip just visible above sinus when set, 13–15 x 4mm, brown, constricted and narrowed to apex.
Widespread and common in coastal areas, less common inland, growing in dense heathy forest, woodland and shrubland in freely draining sands and laterite.
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