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Lip 7–10 × 5–6 mm, 3-lobed; side lobes erect, rounded; mid-lobe deflexed, suborbicular to obovate, less than half of the total length of the lip; callus of 3 basal ridges with several lines of papillae on mid-lobe; spur 3–4 mm long, conical or cylindrical, at right angles to lip, straight or incurved.
Perennating organs mostly subterranean, pseudobulbous, c. 2–4 cm tall, 0.5–2.5 cm wide, conical, covered with dry sheaths, forming chains, drying yellow; roots 2.5–3.5 mm in diameter.
Sepals green-brown or yellow-green; petals whitish; lip white or greenish-white with a pale purple edge, purple-veined side lobes and lilac and white papillae on mid-lobe.
Leaves 5–9 forming a fan, 12–20 cm × 3–10 mm, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, starting to develop at flowering time.
Inflorescences 1–2, laxly few-to several-flowered; scape wiry with a sheathing bract in the lower half.
Pedicel and ovary 13–25 mm long, slender, held at right angles to the rhachis.
Petals 8–8.5 × 1.5–2 mm, elliptic, acute, projecting over column.
Sepals erect, 12–16 × 1 mm, linear-oblanceolate, acute.
Slender terrestrial herb 30–50 cm tall.
Bracts 4–9 mm long, linear, acuminate.
Column 4–5 mm long; foot 1 mm long.
Capsule pendent, c. 20 mm long.
