Pseudobulbs tufted, laterally compressed, cylindric, 3-7 × ca. 1.5 cm, stout, distally 2-4-leaved. Leaves ± distichous, erect, sessile, linear-oblanceolate, 30-40 × 2-3.5 cm, leathery, base attenuate, apex acute. Inflorescence subterminal, 17-18 cm, slender, upper part slightly recurved, with stellate hairs, densely many flowered; peduncle 12-13 cm, with a few sterile basal bracts; sterile bracts red, ovate, ca. 2 × 1 mm, densely stellate-pilose, acuminate; floral bracts inconspicuous. Flowers small, crowded, brownish; pedicel and ovary ca. 6 mm, densely stellate-pilose. Sepals with reddish hairs abaxially; dorsal sepal ovate-oblong, ca. 3 × 1.5 mm, often slightly thickened, base truncate, apex obtuse; lateral sepals obliquely ovate, ca. 2.5 × 3 mm, obtuse. Petals oblong, slightly oblique, ca. 3 × 1.5 mm, glabrous, base truncate, margin undulate, apex rounded; lip ± cymbiform, oblong in outline, ca. 4 × 1.5 mm, with 4 or 5 purple, branched veins, glabrous, base adnate to column foot, entire, margin conspicuously crenulate, apex recurved, bluntly rounded. Column erect, ca. 1 mm, base with a deep groove, foot ca. 3 mm. Fl. May.
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