Cheirostylis lepida Rolfe

Perennial herb up to 30 cm. high, usually about 15 cm.; stem creeping at base.. Leaves membranous, ovate, shortly acuminate, rounded or slightly cordate at the base, up to 5 cm. long, and 2.5 cm. broad; petiole shorter than the lamina, widening at the base to sheath the stem.. Inflorescence terminal; scape erect, sparsely pilose; raceme dense, with up to 20 white flowers; bracts glabrous, up to 13 mm. long, exceeding the sparsely pilose ovary.. Perianth-segments 3.5–4.8 mm. long, 1.1–2.7 mm. broad.. Sepals joined for half their length, apices acute.. Petals adnate to the dorsal sepal, obovate with acute apices.. Lip up to 5.6 mm. long, equalling or exceeding the perianth, erect, saccate at the base with 2 hooked calli, bilobed at the apex; lobes broad, divergent, entire or slightly toothed.. Column up to 2 mm. long.. Fig. 46/1–7, p. 248.

In shade in forest.