Plant: leaves to 20 mm, purple-spotted, dull, leathery, in fan-shaped clusters sticking out from the stem.

Flowers: yellow-green, the labellum lacking the calli in the labellum of D. adversus.

Flowering: October to December.

Habitat: on a range of host trees. Widespread.

Conservation: naturally uncommon, sparse.

Notes: much less common than D. adversus with which it sometimes grows.

Key features: white roots leading from a clump of leaves sticking out from the stem or surface; leaves spotted, flowers un-spotted.