Flowering stem 10-20(–30) cm tall, stout. Leaf-blade to 8 cm long, stiff, turgid, 4–8 mm diam. at base. Flowers 8–20, crowded, dark brownish, often fragrant, in a short spike 5–8 cm long; ovary obovoid, to 4 mm long; sepals 5.5–6.5 mm long, dorsal sepal ovate-lanceolate, acute, lateral sepals usually mostly connate (tips free), with thickened incurved margins and recurved apices; petals linear-lanceolate, 5-5.5 mm long, projecting forward. Labellum 4–5 mm long, subsessile, recurved near middle, greenish, whitish or pink, base orbicular, flat, margins smooth; callus often greenish, prominently raised, covering most of labellum lamina and extending almost to the apex. Column appendages whitish, narrow-oblong, to 1.5 mm long. Flowers Jan.–Mar.
HSF, HNF, VAlp. Also NSW, ACT, Tas. Confined to alpine and subalpine meadows and snowgum woodlands, often in moist to wet areas among tussock grasses.
