Stems often prostrate, to 37 cm, ca. 2 mm in diam., slender, often branched, internodes ca. 5 mm. Leaves many, distichous; blade green, sometimes with purple-red spots on both surfaces, oblong or elliptic, 1.5-3 × 0.4-0.8 cm, slightly fleshy, apex acute or bifid, with an abaxial awn. Inflorescence subumbellate, 2-or 3-flowered; peduncle often 1-1.5 cm; floral bracts triangular, 1-2 mm, membranous; pedicel and ovary pale yellow, with purplish red spots, 1-1.5 mm. Flowers yellowish, with purplish speckles or irregular blotches. Dorsal sepal concave, elliptic-oblong, 4.8-7 × 2.5-4 mm, apex obtuse; lateral sepals obliquely oblong, similar in size to dorsal sepal, apex obtuse. Petals oblanceolate, 4-5 × 2.8-3 mm, apex rounded; lip with an epichile and a saccate hypochile; epichile white, broadly triangular or nearly suborbicular, 2.2-3.2 × 7-9 mm, adaxially with a yellow densely papillate-hairy cushion, margin entire or slightly dentate-undulate, apex subtruncate or rounded; hypochile subcupular, ca. 5 mm tall, ca. 4 mm in diam. Column ca. 1.5 mm; anther cap narrowed toward apex. Fl. throughout year.
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