Small repent or caespitose epiphytic herbs from a slender creeping rhizome, up to 2 dm. tall. Pseudobulbs 1.5-5 cm. long and 0.1-0.5 cm. in diameter, cylindric to narrowly fusiform, covered with marcescent sheaths, becoming naked with age, unifoliate. Leaves 4-12 cm. long and 1-3 mm. broad (or in diameter), linear and flattened or appearing terete due to their inrolled margins. Inflorescence a few-to several-flowered raceme, shorter than the subtending leaf; flowers small and inconspicuous. Dorsal sepals 5-6 mm. long and 1.5-2 mm. broad, lanceolate, acute, sparsely glandular dorsally. Lateral sepals 6-7 mm. long and 2-3 mm. broad, oblique, lanceolate, acute or acuminate, sparsely glandular dorsally. Petals 4.5-5.5 mm. long and 0.5-0.7 mm. broad, linear, acute. Lip 5-6 mm. long and 3-3.5 mm. broad, unguiculate; claw short, adnate to the column; lamina deltoid. to ovate-lanceolate, apiculate, slightly cochleate, without calluses.
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