Rosette leaves 3–7, in sparse rosette, 10–30 x 5–10mm, sometimes with darker veining. Flower stem 80–25 tall, 1–10-flowered. Flowers porrect to semi-nodding, 13–16 x 5mm, green and reddish-brown to purple-brown with translucent white areas. Dorsal sepal point acuminate, 1.5– long. Lateral sepals much narrower than hood, 9–11 x 6– when flattened, concave, margins strongly infolded, gradually tapered into free points; free points 3– long, thick, fleshy, curved forwards, weakly divergent. Petals with large basal flanges, c.10 x 3.5mm. Labellum oblong to obovate, 3–3.5 x 1.5mm, fleshy, dark brown; basal lobe thick, with numerous very short bristles; margins with 8–12 bristles 0.5–1. long.
Widespread and often common, growing in drier forests such as ironbark and box forests, woodland and mallee shrubland, usually in clay loams, shallow stony soils or gravels, sometimes of limestone origin.
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