Flowering stem erect, straight, 10–30 cm tall, 1.5–3.3 mm diam., green to purplish, usually shorter than leaf. Leaf linear to linear-lanceolate, attenuate, 12–30 cm long, 5–15 mm wide, very fleshy, canaliculate, ribbed abaxially, sheathing at base, dark green with a purplish base. Inflorescence 2–8-flowered, open. Sterile bracts 1, rarely 2. Perianth segments lanceolate to ovate, 6–11 mm long, pale blue to pale purplish blue. Column slender, 4–6.5 mm long, pale blue; mid-lobe expanded into hood over the anther, tubular, slightly inflated, curved gently forward, yellow with a reddish brown collar, apex entire to shallowly bilobed; lateral lobes converging 0.8–1.3 mm long, digitiform, porrect at base then bent upwards sharply near the middle at c. 90 deg., each with a toothbrush-like arrangement of white hairs embracing the apex of the mid-lobe. Anther inserted about mid-way along column, shortly beaked. Flowers Sep.–Oct.
Apparently endemic to Victoria where only known with certainty from the Rokewood area.
Distinguished by the large fleshy leaf that is usually as long as the entire inflorescence.
Often grows in clumps by vegetative reproduction.
