Rosette stalk 20–7 long; leaves 3–5, 12–40 x 5–13mm. Flower stem 100–35 tall; stem leaves 3–8, 15–70 x 4–7mm. Flowers 1–6, 12–18 x 5–7mm, bright green with dark green stripes and translucent areas, shiny. Dorsal sepal tip brownish. Lateral sepals narrower than galea, 13–17 x 4–6mm, bluish-green, margins straight, tips orange-brown. Petals with large basal flanges that block off basal opening in galea, 13–17 x 3–3.5mm. Labellum 7–9 x 2–3mm, oblong, bright green with darker green basal mound and central stripe; surface cells bead-like; sometimes with few hair-like cells at base.
Locally common, growing on sheltered slopes and gullies among shrubs and tussocks in heathy forest and sparse open forest dominated by species of Eucalyptus and Callitris in freely draining clay loam and sandy soil.
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