Rosette stalk 20–7 long; leaves 3–8, 5–40 x 3–9mm. Flower stem 80–95 tall; stem leaves 4–10, 22–95 x 4–10mm. Flowers 1–12, 16–22 x 7–9mm, dark green with prominent darker green stripes, shiny. Dorsal sepal tip brownish. Lateral sepals about as wide as galea,15–20 x 7–9mm, margins curved, tips orange-brown. Petals with large basal flanges that block off basal opening in galea, 14–18 x 3.5–4.5mm. Labellum 7–9 x 3.5–4mm, widest towards apex, bright green with dark green basal mound and dark green central stripe; surface cells bead-like, longer hair-like cells clustered at base and basal margins.
Widespread and often locally common, growing among shrubs and tussocks on sheltered slopes, ridges and gullies in open forest and woodland in shallow freely draining clay loam.
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