Erect terrestrial herbs 45-65 cm. tall. Leaves 2, plicate, elliptic, shortly acute or lanceolate-acuminate, contracted at the base into a sheathing petiole, the bases enclosing a short, stout, fleshy, cylindric, tapering pseudobulb. Inflorescences erect, leafless scapes, racemose or subcapitate, less than, equal to, or exceeding the leaves, the bases enveloped by the tulbular imbricating petiolar bracts. Flowers few to many. Dorsal sepal lanceolate, shortly acuminate, 10-16 mm. long and 4-5 mm. broad, lateral sepals oblique, lanceolate, subfalcate, acute, 8-11 mm. long and 4-5 mm. wide. Petals oblanceolate, acute, 10-11 mm. long and 5-6 mm. wide. Lip entire, broadly ovate, acute, 6-9 mm. long and 4.5-7.5 mm. broad, strongly nerved, the nerves often branching; base articulated to the column foot. Column short, arcuate, 7-8 mm. long, broadly winged and often subauriculate at the apex, produced at the base into a foot.
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