Rosette leaves 3–6, ovate, 10–30 x 5–20mm, dark green, margins entire. Flower stem 60–18 tall, with 2–5 spreading stem leaves to 30 x 5mm. Flower leaning forwards, 16–22 x 6–7mm, white with dark green or brown stripes and suffusions. Dorsal sepal with short tapered point. Sinus curved in sideview, notched in front view. Free points filiform, 12–1 long, erect or curved forwards. Labellum in long curve, protruding prominently from sinus when set, 15–18 x 2.5mm, brown, with long narrow apex, blunt.
Highly localised, growing in sheltered situations in drier forests usually on shady slopes, near streams and among boulders in freely draining gravelly soil.
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