Rosette leaves 3–7, elliptic, 15–35 x 8–12mm. Flower stem 80–15 tall, 3– across, 1–6-flowered. Sterile bracts 2–3. Flowers porrect to semi-nodding, glabrous, 30–35 x 10–12mm, translucent white with red, brown or pink markings and transparent petals. Dorsal sepal point filamentous, 4– long, upcurved. Lateral sepals much wider than hood, concave, glabrous, margins thickened; free points filamentous, 8–1 long, weakly curved forwards, parallel. Petals with narrow basal flanges, 14–17 x 4.5–5mm. Labellum elliptic, 6–7.5 x 3mm, reddish with darker stripes, margins scalloped between each bristle, tip thickened; margins with 16–20 bristles c. long; basal lobe small, sloping.
Restricted but locally common, growing in cracks, crevices and pockets on large rock sheets and in sandy areas among quartzite boulders and rocks.
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