Plants forming small, dense clumps. Pseudobulbs moderately crowded, somewhat flattened, 7–10 × 6–10 mm, pale green, deeply grooved. Leaves erect, oblong, 50–100 × 5–8 mm, dark green, stiff. Racemes with thread-like stems 40–70 mm long, 1–4-flowered. Flowers bell-shaped, 6–7 × 3–5 mm, white, cream or pale green with pink labellum; flowers rarely wholly pale pink. Dorsal sepal hooded, 7–8.5 × 2–3 mm, irregularly warty. Lateral sepals triangular, 7.5–9 × 5–6 mm. Petals obliquely erect, 5–6 × 2 mm. Labellum c. 6 × 3.5 mm, thick, fleshy, curved, blunt.
Locally common at high altitudes in rainforest; growing on shrubs, trees and rocks in shady situations where wind, clouds, mists and fogs are common.
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