Rosette leaves 3–5, ovate, 8–23 x 5–15mm, bright green, margins entire. Flower stem 150–60 tall, relatively thick, fleshy, 3–20-flowered. Flowers moderately spaced to crowded, relatively thin and angular, 3–5 open at once, externally scabrous, 9–12 x 3mm, base dark green and white striped, apex dark brown, Dorsal sepal as long as petals, both scabrous. Synsepalum gently curved in side view, suddenly stepped in at top; frontal opening flat with shallow central notch. Free points triangular-tapered, 2.5– long, not reaching top of hood. Labellum not visible through sinus in any position, elliptical, 3.5– x 1.5–1.7 mm, dark red-brown and lighter brown, blunt or notched.
Localised, growing among grass and shrubs in tall montane high rainfall forests dominated by mountain white gum and small-leaved peppermint (E.radiata subsp. robertsonii) in well-structured red-brown clay loam with coarse surface litter.
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