Leaf with white, silky hairs on both surfaces (mainly on veins), 40–100 × 10–50 mm, margins often wavy. Flower stem 300–600 × 5–8 mm, 5–20-flowered. Sterile bracts usually 2. Flowers 30–40 mm across, yellow, orange-yellow or greenish yellow, lightly to heavily spotted and blotched with purple-brown markings. Sepals and petals 15–20 × 7–10 mm (labellum narrowest). Column 8–10 × 3–5 mm, yellow, reddish or brownish; post-anther lobe erect, semi-hooding anther, fan-shaped or crescent-shaped, curved, fringed or lobed, glandular/papillate on dorsal surface; column arms c. 0.8 mm long, erect, thickened papillate apical area projected forwards or decumbent, covered with yellow or orange, glandular papillae in elongated tuft. Anther in middle of column.
Widely distributed and locally common in winter-wet sites in shrubland, open forest and woodland, growing in freely draining to moisture-retentive, sandy soil and clay loam.
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