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Slender terrestrial saprophyte 18–25 cm high, arising from a horizontal or ascending cigar-shaped rhizome over 4 cm long and 0.5–1 cm in diameter, with numerous papery sheathing bracts; roots absent.
Lip c. 7.5 × 3 mm, very concave, 3-lobed near the base; side lobes small, erect, tooth-like; mid-lobe narrowly elliptic, acute; callus basal, bilobed.
Dorsal sepal erect, 13–15 × 2–2.5 mm, oblanceolate, acute; lateral sepals suberect, similar but slightly shorter and oblique at the base.
Flowers not opening wide, dull brownish-cream with brown veins; lip dull cream with tiny reddish-brown veins.
Petals suberect, 9–12 × 1.2–1.5 mm, oblanceolate, acute, with a narrow claw 4 mm long.
Column 4 mm long; pollinia 2, porate, attached by a linear stipe to an oblong gland.
Spur 5 mm long, cylindrical-tapering, lying parallel to and appressed to the lip.
Pedicel 5 mm long, ovary 4–5 mm long at anthesis, soon enlarging.
Bracts c. 10 mm long.
Leaves absent.
