Rosette leaves 5–8, ovate to elliptic, 6–20 x 3–8mm, green, margins entire. Flower stem 50–16 tall, 1– across, 3–14-flowered. Sterile bracts 4–6. Flowers crowded, green with faint darker green stripes, 6.5–9 x 3–3.5mm. Lateral sepals deeply pouched, 4–5 x 5– when flattened. Petals 5–6 x 3–3.5mm, translucent green, margins with siliceous bead-like cells. Labellum elliptic, 2–2.2 x 2mm, pale green with dark greenish-black appendage c.1.8 x 1.3mm, with short blunt protruding central ridge.
Localised, growing on flats, slopes and ridges in montane grassland and herbfield in shallow clay loam; also grassy areas in snowgum woodland in fertile loam.
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