Flower stem 100–25 tall. Leaves 10–18, 20–45 x 5–15mm, dark green with pale cream areas and darker netted veins. Flower erect, 45–55 x 6–7mm, translucent green with network of dark green veins and lines. Dorsal sepal point thick, 25–3 long, straight or curved. Lateral sepals 45–5 long; pad green, fleshy; free points 40–5 long, nearly parallel to divergent. Petals green. Labellum 25–3 long, thread-like; labellum hairs moderately dense, yellow, 3– long; apical knob c.1.5 x 1mm, slender, brown.
Widespread and sometimes locally common, growing in coastal and near-coastal shrubby forest, shrubland, heathy swales on consolidated sand dunes and shallow soil on granite outcrops in sands and peaty soils.
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