Pseudobulbs crowded, 50–500 × 10–25 mm, base broadest then tapered, often reddish, becoming yellow and furrowed with age. New growths often pink to purplish. Leaves 2–7, 50–120 × 15–30 mm, dark green, tough. Racemes 80–200 mm long, 1–15-flowered. Flowers 15–20 mm diameter, mostly in shades of pink, mauve or purplish, occasionally white with purple labellum markings. Sepals and petals fleshy, widely spreading. Dorsal sepal 10–20 × 4–7 mm. Lateral sepals 10–12 × 6–10 mm. Petals 10–17 × 3–7 mm. Labellum 13–16 × 8–10 mm, often with dark pink stripes; lateral lobes narrow, erect; midlobe decurved with green central line with 3 ridges, shortly pointed.
Widespread and common; found growing almost exclusively on rocks and often forming extensive colonies on boulders, cliff faces, rocky slopes, escarpments and gorges, rarely on the base of trees. Most common in the ranges and mountains, but also occurs occasionally in intermediate to lowland situations.
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