Caespitose, epiphytic herbs up to about 50 cm. tall. Stems pseudobulbose, fusiform to ovoid, covered with the leaf-sheaths or becoming naked, bearing up to about 8 leaves. Leaves 8-26 cm. long and 0.8-2 cm. broad, linear-elliptic to ellipti9, acute or acuminate, plicate. Inflorescence a terminal few-flowered raceme; flowers relatively large and pretty. Dorsal sepal 15-19 mm. long and 3-5 mm. broad, oblanceoiate, acute. Lateral sepals 16-20 mm. long and 4-6 mm. broad, lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, acute, slightly arcuate. Petals 16-20 mm. long and 4-6 mm. broad, elliptic to elliptic-oblanceolate, acute. Lip, including the spur, 40-50 mm. long and 30-40 mm. broad, infundibuliform, spur just about equalling the lamina in length; lamina suborbicular-rhombic, emarginate.
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