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Flowers rather drooping, sepals brown, greenish-brown or purple-green, petals dull yellow, lip whitish-yellow with yellow papillae on mid-lobe and purple veins on the side lobes.
Perennating organs subterranean, tuberous, c. 8 cm long, 1 cm in diameter, cigar-shaped, ± erect, with 1–3 flowering stems arising from the side about halfway along.
Inflorescence fairly densely many-flowered; scape brownish-yellow with several brownish sheaths towards the base and 1–2 smaller sheaths further up.
Sepals ligulate-oblanceolate, acute or acuminate, the tips reflexed, dorsal sepal 9–12 × 1.3–2.2 mm, laterals 10–13 × 1.8–2.3 mm.
Pedicel and ovary arched, pedicel 2–3 mm long, ovary 3–5 mm long, starting to swell before the flowers wither.
Terrestrial herb, saprophytic or semi-saprophytic, lacking green leaves and drying almost black.
Petals 7.5–11 × 1–2.4 mm, narrowly oblong-elliptic, acute or apiculate.
Column 3.5 mm long, the anther with 2 very short recurved hairs.
Bracts 9–10 mm long, lanceolate, acuminate, brownish.
Spur 2–3.5 mm long, straight, inflated at apex.
