Plants terrestrial, slender to stout, 0.03-0.33 m high. Leaves 3-8, spreading, 9-63 mm long. Inflorescence dense, 4-15-flowered; bracts overtopping flowers, broadly ovate, conspicuous, maroon to plum-coloured. Flowers dull white or yellow with dark reddish brown markings along veins. Sepals: median sepal subtruncate, 4-6 mm long, fused to bases of lateral sepals and petals to form a thickened mentum; lateral sepals broadly elliptic falcate. Petals deltoid-falcate, 4-6 mm long. Lip hemispherical, 4-19 mm long, taller than deep; spur saccate, 1 mm long. Flowering time Sept.-Nov.
Slender to stout geophyte to 30 cm. Leaves 3-8, cauline, lanceolate, bracts spreading. Flowers few to many in a lax to dense raceme, dull white or yellow with dark reddish brown markings, sepals 4-6 mm long, lip hemispherical, spurs saccate.
Terrestrial herb, up to 300 mm tall. Leaves spreading. Flower bracts mostly flattened. Petals and odd sepal dark reddish brown. Lip curved around sides of column. Flowers dull white with dark reddish brown veins.