Ancistrorhynchus capitatus (Lindl.) Summerh.

A suberect to pendent epiphyte with short stems 1–10 cm. long.. Roots 1.5–2.5 mm. in diameter.. Leaves 3–8, coriaceous, linear, unequally lobed at the apex, 16–32 cm. long, 1.4–2.1 cm. wide, each lobe 2–3-toothed, articulated at the base to leaf-bases 2–2.7 cm. long.. Inflorescences capitate, densely many-flowered, up to 1.5 cm. long, 2.5 cm. across; bracts papery, oblong-lanceolate, acute, up to 1 cm. long.. Flowers white with a green mark on the lip; pedicel and ovary 7–9 mm. long, scabrid-papillose.. Dorsal sepal elliptic, obtuse, 5–5.5 mm. long, 2–2.3 mm. wide; lateral sepals oblong, obtuse, 5–5.6 mm. long, 2.5–2.8 mm. wide.. Petals oblong, rounded, 4–5.5 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, erose.. Lip concave, ovate, rounded and fleshy at the apex, 4.5–5.7 mm. long, 4.3–5 mm. wide, upcurved and undulate on the margin.. Spur slightly incurved, clavate, 7.4–8.5 mm. long.. Column 2.5–12.8 mm. long; stipites 2, oblanceolate; viscidium 1, linear.