Plants forming dense, spreading clumps, sometimes large. Pseudobulbs well spaced, ovoid to conical, 8–15 × 8–12 mm, grooved or ribbed. Leaves erect, 40–70 × 8–12 mm, stiff, dark green. Racemes with wiry stems 50–90 mm long, 1–8-flowered. Flowers bell-shaped, 4–6 × 4–5 mm, white, cream or greenish, rarely pink, dorsal sepal and petals sometimes with red stripes. Dorsal sepal hooded, 5–7 × 2.5–3 mm. Lateral sepals triangular, 5–7 × 3–4 mm, 3-nerved. Petals 3–3.5 × 1.5 mm. Labellum c. 5 × 1.5 mm, curved, fleshy, sparsely hairy.
Widespread and common; growing on trees and rocks in rainforest and humid open forest at medium to high elevations, usually in sheltered situations where there is abundant air movement, sometimes in relatively exposed positions.
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