Rosette stalk 20–5 long; leaves 3–5, 9–35 x 4–8mm. Flower stem 90–55 tall; stem leaves 5–7, 20–100 x 4–8mm. Flowers 1–10, 16–22 x 6–8mm, translucent green with prominent dark green stripes, shiny. Dorsal sepal tip brownish. Lateral sepals about as wide as galea, 16–19 x 7–8mm, margins curved, tips orange-brown. Petals with large basal flanges that block off basal opening in galea, 14–16 x 3–4mm. Labellum 6–8 x 3.5–4mm, oblong, emerald green with dark green basal mound and dark green central stripe; surface cells bead-like, longer hair-like ones densely clustered at base and basal margins.
Widespread but usually localised, growing among grass and shrubs in range of habitats including moist flats, sheltered slopes and gullies and rocky ridges and slopes in drier forests and woodland, usually in freely draining shallow clay loam.
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