Rosette stalk 60–11 long; leaves 3–6, 10–30 x 4–7mm. Flower stem 200–90 tall; stem leaves 5–8, 20–100 x 3–9mm. Flowers 3–13, 17–20 x 6–8mm, pale translucent green with narrow dark green lines, shiny. Dorsal sepal tip orange-brown to brown. Lateral sepals about as wide as galea, 12–15 x 6–8mm, margins curved, tips brown to orange-brown. Petals without basal flanges, 12–15 x 2.5–3.5mm, outer margin shallowly curved. Labellum 5–7.5 x 2.5–3mm, dark red-brown to blackish with a blackish basal mound and stripe; surface cells bead-like; basal mound leaning back.
Localised, growing on sheltered slopes and flats among tussocks, bracken and shrubs in tall moist to wet forest in freely draining sandy loam over sandstone.
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