Terrestrial herb, slender, geophyte, with root tubers, 0.05-0.25 m high. Leaves linear, grass-like, 6-11 radical, 4-6 cauline; basal leaves broadest, 28-50 x 2-3 mm, glabrous, channelled, apex rounded. Inflorescence dense, subcapitate, nodding, secund, 20-40 mm long; flowers 5-20, 5 mm in diam., not resupinate, sepals and petals white, lip yellow and white. Sepals subequal, porrect, 5-9 mm long; dorsal sepal galeate. Petals 2.54.5 mm long. Lip with central lobe, 2 mm long, lateral lobes 1 mm long, spur translucent, cylindrical, 0.3-3.5 mm long, calli rudimentary. Flowering time Dec.-Feb.
Herb, up to 130 mm tall. Leaves 10-30 with lower 6-20 basal. Inflorescence usually subcapitate. Lip with central lobe 2 mm long, lateral lobes 1 mm long. Flowers with white sepals and petals and a yellow lip.