Erect epiphytic herbs up to about 25 cm. tall. Stems slightly fusiform and indurated, with only the annual leaves persisting and the sheaths of the older leaves becoming scarious and disintegrating. Leaves 11-12 cm. long and 2-2.8 cm. broad, elliptic, short-acuminate, usually only 2 or 3 persisting. Peduncles up to about 4 cm. long, ancipitous, generally covered with imbricated bracts. In-florescence short, 1-, or at most few-,flowered; bracts up to about 2 cm. long, cucullate, lanceolate-triangular, acute; flowers green, segments stiff and coriaceous. Sepals 10-12 mm. long and 3-4 mm. broad, elliptic to oblanceolate, obtuse, 5-nerved. Petals about 10-11 mm. long and 3-4 mm. broad, oblanceolate, obtuse, with 3 principal nerves. Lip unguiculate, the claw mostly adnate to the column; lamina 5-6 mm. long and 5-6 mm. broad, orbicular-ovate in outline, 3-lobed, the lateral lobes small and situated toward the base of the lip, with a 2-ridged lamellate callus plate at the junction of the claw and the lamina. Column slender, about 8, mm. long; clinandrium entire and obtuse; pollinia not seen.
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