Flowering plant 18–58 cm tall, stem leaves 4–7, lanceolate, acute, withered at flowering, 0.5–3.0 cm long, closely sheathing. Rosette leaves 2–10, narrowly elliptic, acute to acuminate, 0.5–3.5 cm long, 5–10 mm wide. Flowers 1–8, porrect, 2–2.5 cm long, with olive and/or green stripes and intervening translucent or white panels; dorsal sepal with straight or decurved filiform point 10–14 mm long; lateral sepals deflexed, conjoined part 8–11 mm long, 7–10 mm wide, flat to shallowly concave, margins slightly upcurved, densely ciliate In the basal half, free points curved forward, filiform, 11–23 mm long, spreading; petals with a prominent, brownish proximal flange. Labellum oblanceolate, 6.2–7.9 mm long, 1.7–2.9 mm wide, green or brown, brown, thick-textured, marginal hairs in c. 12 pairs, 1–2.5 mm long (longest toward base), white, spreading; basal lobe sloped backwards, with 2 prominent, forward-pointing hairs 2.6–4.6 mm long. Flowers mostly Nov.
