Rosette leaves 5–10, elliptic, 10–30 x 7–13mm. Flower stem 80–25 tall, 2– across, 3–15-flowered. Stem bracts 3–4. Flowers semi-nodding, held horizontally on long stalks, 16–20 x 5–6mm, bright reddish-brown with translucent white areas. Dorsal sepal point acuminate, 2– long. Lateral sepals as wide as hood, shallowly concave, margins incurved, glabrous, gradually tapered into free points; free points 5– long, thick, divergent. Petals with large basal flanges blocking off base of opening, 12–13 x 3.5–4mm. Labellum oblong, 3.5–4.5 x 2–2.5mm, fleshy, dark red-brown, apex truncate or notched; margins with 8–16 white bristles 0.5–1. long; basal lobe thick, slightly wider than blade, with numerous very short hairs and bristles.
Widespread and sometimes locally common, growing on slopes and ridges in stunted forests, drier forests, among boulders on rocky outcrops and on rock sheets in shallow freely draining soils.
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