Small repent or caespitose, epiphytic or terrestrial herbs up to about 30 cm. long. Stems simple, slender, densely leaved, prolonged into a long peduncle above. Leaves 1.5-6.5 cm. long and 0.3-0.8 cm. broad,-lanceolate, the margins often revolute. Inflorescence a short few-flowered raceme (with flower open at a time?) on the apex of a long peduncle. Dorsal sepal 5-9 mm. long and 2-3 mm. broad, elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, acute. Lateral sepals 5-9 mm. long and 2.3-3.6 mm broad, elliptic-oblong to oblong-ovate, somewhat oblique, acute. Petals 4.5 mm. long and 0.5-0.8 mm. broad, linear to subfiliform. Lip unguic-ulate; claw adnate to the column; provided with a spur which is 3-4 mm. long, adnate to the ovary for-a part of its length or occasionally for all of its length but usually the obtuse and rounded tip free; lamina 3-5 mm. long and 4-6 mm. broad, entire, subreniform or suborbicular, fleshy; disc with 2 mammillate calluses near the apex of the column and often with a longitudinal callus-thickening along the median line.
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