Rosette leaves 6–10, narrowly elliptic, 15–25 x 6–9mm. Flower stem 90–15 tall, 3– across, 1–8-flowered. Stem bracts 2–3. Flowers porrect, 30–40 x 10–12mm, translucent white with dark brown lines and chequered markings. Dorsal sepal point filamentous, 8–1 long, porrect. Lateral sepals slightly wider than hood, deeply concave, margins, densely hairy; free points filamentous, 14–2 long, decurved or incurved, parallel. Petals with small basal flanges, 17–19 x 5–6mm. Labellum oblong-elliptic, 7–9 x 3–3.5mm, thin-textured, brown, tip upcurved; margins scalloped (appearing wavy), with 18–24 spreading bristles 1–1. long; two prominent bristles c. long projecting from near base; basal lobe thin, sloping backwards, sparsely hairy and with few short bristles.
Scattered and disjunct, growing on few isolated hills on stony slopes, rock ledges and crevices in relatively dry sparse forest in freely stony soils and loam.
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