Plants terrestrial, slender to robust, 0.11-0.43 m high. Leaves 2, appressed to ground, ovate to rotund, 20-110 mm long. Inflorescence lax, 5-50-flowered; bracts deflexed. Flowers pale pink to ivory, dark purple along midveins; sepals and petals 1/3 fused to lip, then decurved. Sepals 9-15 mm long, narrow, partly fused with petals. Petals 9-15 mm long, oblong acute. Lip entrance 7-14 mm long, apical flap not bent back; spur 19-30 mm long. Flowering time Oct.-Dec., after fire.
Slender to stout, tuberous geophyte to 40 cm. Leaves 2, prostrate, broadly ovate to rotund, bracts deflexed. Flowers 10-26 in a lax raceme, pale pink to ivory, petals and sepals with dark purple markings, spurs 19-30 mm long.