Small, caespitose, epiphytic herbs up to about 8 cm. tall. Stems short, covered with the scarious amplexicaul sheaths of the leaves. Leaves 7-25 mm. long and 2-7 mm. broad, ligulate to lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or acute, fleshy, spreading. Inflorescence consisting of a single flower from the apex of the stem, subtended by a scarious sheath; flowers large for the plant, sepals and petals green-ish, lip purple. Dorsal sepal 7-14 mm. long and 2-5 mm. broad, lanceolate to lanceolate-ovate, acute. Lateral sepals 8-14 mm. long and 3-5.5 mm. broad, lanceolate to lanceolate-ovate, acute, adnate at the base to the claw of the lip and to the column for about the length of the column. Petals 7-13 mm. long and 0.5-1.5 mm. broad, linear, obtuse, obscurely ciliolate toward the apex. Lip up to 18 mm. long, unguiculate; claw narrow, adnate to the column; lamina 9-15 mm. long and as broad, suborbicular-cordate, obscurely ciliolate, fleshy, provided with 2 mammillate calluses at the base under the apex of the column.
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