Small, branched, epiphytic herbs up7 to about 50 cm. long. Stems slender, much branched, covered with the scarious leaf-sheaths when young, becoming naked with age. Leaves 4-10 cm. long and 0.6-2 cm. broad, elliptic to lanceolate to oblanceolate, acute. Inflorescence shorter than the leaves, 1-to few-flowered, borne on a short winged peduncle. Flowers greenish, the lip with a purple cast. Dorsal sepal 7-10 mm. long and 3-6 mm. broad, oval to oblong-ligulate, acutish. Lateral sepals 10-12 mm. long and 3-6 mm. broad, oblong to oblong-oval, ob-lique, acute. Petals 7-10 mm. long and 1.5-2 mm. broad, linear, obtuse. Lip unguiculate; the, claw adnate to the column; lamina 7-10 mm. long and 9-13 mm. broad, suborbicular-cordate, crenulate, obscurely emarginate, fleshy, provided with 2 (or 3) submammillate calluses at. the base which are prolonged into low fleshy keels and with a low keel passing between the mammillae.
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