Rosette leaves 15–30 x 10–15mm, margins entire. Flower stem 80–22 tall. Flower leaning forwards, 40–50 x 16–19mm, bluish-green, reddish-green or red and white, hood gracefully curved. Dorsal sepal apex thread-like,12–1 long. Sinus bulging in side view, rough to the touch. Free points 35–4 long, widely divergent, erect or curved forwards. Labellum curved or kinked, protruding prominently from sinus when set, 20–25 x 3.5–4mm, red-brown, blunt.
Widespread but localised, growing on sheltered slopes among bracken, grass and shrubs in tall moist forest and in grass meadows in montane forest in freely draining to moisture-retentive loam; less commonly among rocks in drier rain-shadow areas in freely draining gravelly loam.
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