Slender terrestrial to 50 cm tall. Leaves linear to narrow-lanceolate, to 15 cm long, to 1 cm wide, erect, shiny, dark green. Flowers 10-60, to 6 mm wide, pink and white, rarely all white; summer. Sepals ovate to triangular. Petals slightly smaller than sepals, blunt. Labellum oblong, concave, apical margins very wavy. Syn. S. sinensis (Pers.) Ames subsp. australis (R. Br.) Kitam.

SE Australia.

Source: Jeanes, J. (2005). Orchidaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 5. Flowering plants. Monocotyledons. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.