Rosette leaves 3–6, ovate to oblong, 15–40 x 5–15mm, dark green, shiny, margins entire. Flower stem 100–20 tall. Flower semi-nodding, 22–26 x 9–12mm, green and white or marked and stained with brown or red-brown, top of hood curved in semicircle. Dorsal sepal longer than petals, apex tapered, 1– long. Sinus nearly flat in side view, broadly U-shaped in front view. Free points filiform, 20–2 long, very thin, erect, divergent. Petals blunt. Labellum strongly curved, protruding prominently from sinus when set, 13–15 x 3mm, apex deeply notched, points widely divergent.
Localised in coastal and hinterland ranges and foothills, growing on sheltered slopes, flats and stream banks in wet forest and rainforest in humus-rich loams.
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