Tuberous geophyte, 8.5cm to 24cm tall, with a stout stalk. Two leaves pressed flat on ground, scattered with long hairs on upper surface, up to 95mm broad; inflorescence dense, up to 30 flowers, more or less on one side of the stem; stem without bracts, long hairs at right angles to stem; flowers cream to yellow, spur curved.

Far less common than Holothrix villosa var. villosa and also distinguishable from it by the shorter, stouter flowering stem and denser inflorescence.