Erect, caespitose, epiphytic herbs up to about 30 cm. tall. Stems slender, simple, covered with the scarious leaf-sheaths or naked below. Leaves 6-10 cm. long and 1.2-1.8 cm. broad, elliptic, acute. Inflorescence simple or branched, few-flowered; flowers inadequately known. Dorsal sepal about 12 mm. long and .5 mm. broad, concave, narrowly oval. Lateral sepals about 10 mm. long and 6 mm. broad, oblong-oval, oblique, acute. Petals about 11 mm. long and 5.5 mm. broad, spatulate-oblanceolate, oblique, obtuse. Lip unguiculate; claw short, adnate to the column; lamina 3-lobed, about 7 mm. long and 8 mm. broad; lateral lobes small, dentiform, narrowly triangular-lanceolate, explanate, about 1.5-2 mm. long; terminal lobe largest, semicircular-flabellate, cuneate to the base; disc with 3 thickened, carinate nerves, the central one most prominent and with a mammil-late callus at the base.
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