Plants terrestrial, autotrophic. Pseudobulbs ovoid, 1-1.4 × 0.7-1 cm, 2-or 3-noded, usually borne on a rhizome; rhizome subterranean, 4-5 × 0.4-0.5 mm. Leaves 3-5, lorate, 40-50 × 0.6-0.9 cm, contracted at base into a petiole-like stalk, apex acute; petiole-like stalk not articulate, basally cylindric-tubular and sometimes equitant to form a pseudostem. Inflorescence arising from base of pseudobulb, 19-21 cm; peduncle with several sheaths 4-5 cm; rachis 2-4-flowered; floral bracts greenish, linear-lanceolate, 25-30 mm. Flowers not scented, 6-7 cm in diam.; pedicel and ovary 30-35 mm; sepals and petals white-green, tinged brownish or pinkish, with green venation; lip similar in color to sepals and petals but somewhat paler and usually with red spots along basal margins of lateral lobes. Sepals oblong-lanceolate or suboblong, 30-40 × 6-7 mm, apex acuminate. Petals similar to sepals though sometimes slightly shorter; lip ovate, 19-21 × 9-10 mm, not fused to basal margins of column, unlobed or obscurely 3-lobed; lateral lobes suborbicular; mid-lobe oblong-ovate, ca. 15 × 6 mm, apex obtuse; disk without keels or lamellae. Column slightly arcuate, greenish, flushed ivory-white at apex, ca. 13 mm; pollinia 4, in 2 pairs. Fl. Jan-Feb.
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