Erect, caespitose, epiphytic herbs up to about 40 cm. tall. Stems 3-12 cm. long, slender, covered with the scarious leaf-sheaths, becoming naked with age, bearing leaves toward the apex. Leaves 2.5-8 cm. long and 0.7-2 cm. broad, elliptic-lanceolate or oblong. Inflorescence up to 30 cm. long, long-pedunculate, a simple or branched raceme; peduncle ancipitous, covered with several equitant scarious bracts. Flowers small, usually purplish with a yellow lip. Dorsal sepal 5-6 mm. long and 1.5-2 mm. broad, lanceolate to oblong, acute or obtuse. Lateral sepals similar to the dorsal but oblique. Petals 3-5 mm. long and 1-1.8 mm. broad, linear to linear-oblong, slightly arcuate, obscurely denticulate. Lip unguiculate; claw adnate to the column; lamina 4-5 mm. long and as broad, ovate-cordate, crenulate, fleshy, the disc with a longitudinal callus well developed and joining the two erect lateral lobes of the lip.
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