A creeping epiphytic herb to 15 cm. tall, with a slender creeping branching rhizome.. Pseudobulbs 1-leafed, obliquely set, narrowly ovoid, 4-angled, 1.2–3 cm. long, 0.5–0.8 cm. diameter, 1.2–6 cm. apart on rhizome.. Leaf coriaceous, erect, ligulate, narrowly oblong or oblong-elliptic, rounded and slightly bilobed at apex, 2.6–10 cm. long, 0.5–1.2 cm. broad.. Inflorescence racemose, many-flowered, 7–14 cm. long, orange-red when dried; peduncle terete, slender, wiry; rhachis fleshy, often at an angle to the peduncle, 3–5 cm. long; bracts distichous, ovate, acuminate, 4 mm. long, pink.. Flowers subsessile, fleshy, non-resupinate; sepals cream or green flushed crimson or maroon; petals translucent; lip yellow, maroon spotted on side lobes with a maroon mid-lobe.. Dorsal sepal ovate, acute or shortly acuminate, 4–4.2 mm. long, 1.7–2.2 mm. broad; lateral sepals ovate, acuminate, 4.5–5.2 mm. long, 2–2.6 mm. broad.. Petals linear, rounded, with incurved upper margins, 2.3–2.5 mm. long, 0,2 mm. broad.. Lip very fleshy, geniculate just above base, rounded at apex, with 2 basal membranous wings and 2 central rounded ridges, 2.5 mm. long, 2 mm. broad.. Column with obscurely truncate wings; anther-cap ± truncate at apex.
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