Rosette stalk 20–50 mm long; leaves 3–5, 5–27 × 3–9 mm. Flower stem 30–200 mm tall; stem leaves 3–6, 5–40 × 2–9 mm. Flowers 1–7, 9–13 × 4–6 mm, pale whitish green to translucent green with green stripes. Dorsal sepal tip brownish. Lateral sepals about as wide as galea, 9–13.5 × 4–6 mm, margins often recurved, tips brown to orange-brown. Petals with smallish basal flanges that block off basal opening in galea, 9–12 × 2–2.3 mm. Labellum 4.5–6 × 1.5–2.3 mm, yellowish green with a slightly darker green central stripe; surface cells mostly bead-like, sometimes a few longer, hair-like cells at base.
Widespread and common; found growing in accumulations of litter in mallee shrubland and broombush shrubland in freely draining, acid and calcareous sands, limey soil with limestone nodules and terra rossa over sheet limestone.
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