Rosette leaves 6–10, elliptic, 18–35 x 7–12mm. Flower stem 150–25 tall, 2– across, 2–7-flowered. Stem bracts 2–3. Flowers semi-nodding, 23–27 x 8–10mm, translucent white with green and brown stripes and chequered markings, sometimes mainly green. Dorsal sepal point filamentous, 5– long, decurved to upcurved. Lateral sepals slightly wider than hood, flat or shallowly concave, sparsely to densely hairy; free points filamentous, 10–1 long, deflexed or incurved, parallel or divergent. Petals with small basal flanges, 16–17 x 4.5–5mm. Labellum narrowly oblong-ovate, 5–6 x 1.5–2mm, green to brown, thick, fleshy, covered with short hairs, shallowly channelled, apex upturned; marginal bristles 8–16, 1–2. long; basal lobe thin, with few short bristles.
Localised, growing on exposed low rocky hills, in mallee communities and near small streams in freely draining stony soils and laterite.
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