A small epiphyte with a short bilaterally compressed stem, 5–7 cm. long, 1–2 mm. in diameter.. Roots 0.5–1 mm. in diameter.. Leaves slightly leathery, alternate, falcate, ligulate, unequally acutely bilobed at the apex, 2.5–5 cm. long, 0.6–1.1 cm. wide, somewhat shiny, twisted at the base.. Inflorescences 1 per node, 1-flowered, ± 1 cm. long; peduncle 4–8 mm. long; bracts lanceolate, acute, 1–2 mm. long.. Flowers white with a faint pinkish or greenish pink tinge; pedicel and ovary curved, 7 mm. long.. Sepals lanceolate, acuminate, 8–8.5 mm. long, 3–3.6 mm. wide.. Petals elliptic-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 6.5–7 mm. long, 2 mm. wide.. Lip concave, ovate, acute, 3–4.5 mm. long, 3.5 mm. wide.. Spur conical-cylindrical, ± parallel to the ovary, 2.5–2.6 mm. long.. Column 0.8–0.9 mm. long.. Fig. 116.
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