Plants terrestrial, slender, 0.14-0.50 m high. Leaves 1-3, basal, spreading near the ground, ovate, obtuse, 20-80 mm long, underside purple. Inflorescence dense, 12-20-flowered; bracts strongly deflexed, margins glabrous. Flowers dull yellowish green tinged dark purple. Sepals free almost to base, strongly recurving, 6-8 mm long. Petals basal parts from loose tube, distal part falcate, crenulate, obtuse. Lip taller than deep, apical flap 2 mm long, bent back; spur slender, 13-18 mm long. Flowering time Sept., Oct., after fire.
Slender to stout, tuberous geophyte to 30 cm. Leaves 1-3, basal, suberect, often purple on reverse, bracts deflexed. Flowers 12-20, in a rather dense raceme, dull yellowish green and usually tinged dark purple, sepals 6-8 mm long, spurs 15-18 mm long.