Small, caespitose or repent, epiphytic herbs up to about 20 cm. long. Stems slender, simple or branched, covered with the loose, keeled, amplexicaul leaf-sheaths, naked with age. Leaves 1.3-2.5 cm. long and 0.5-1.2 cm. broad, elliptic to oval, obtuse, coriaceous, apex obscurely bilobed. Inflorescence a single terminal or lateral flower. Flowers apparently cleistogamous. Dorsal sepal about 12 mm. long and 3 mm. broad, lanceolate, acute. Lateral sepals about 12 mm. long and 3 mm. broad, lanceolate, acute, oblique. Petals about 12 mm. long and 2 mm. broad, elliptic, acute, oblique. Lip unguiculate; claw adnate to the column; lamina about 6 mm. long and 9 mm. broad, sagittate-triangular, the apex of the lateral extensions and the terminal point acute.
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