Eggelingia Summerh.

Epiphytic or rarely lithophytic herbs with elongate monopodial stems, with few branches, leafy along length; roots in basal part, elongate, aerial. Leaves distichous, spreading, ligulate, unequally bilobed at apex, articulated to persistent leaf-sheaths; leaf-sheaths bearing a hair-like ligule at apex opposite leaf. Inflorescences axillary, very short, few-flowered. Flowers small, pedicellate. Sepals and petals free, subsimilar. Lip entire or obscurely 3-lobed at base, ovate, acute, ecallose, spurred; spur cylindric or subclavate, as long as the lip. Column short, fleshy; anther-cap hemispherical, produced in front into an acute apex; pollinia 2, ovoid or subpyriform-ovoid; stipes ligulate, dilated at apex, sometimes Y-shaped; viscidium rectangular-elliptic, almost as large as the stipes; rostellum deflexed, triangular, deeply bifid.