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Terrestrial herb, geophyte, slender, 0.075-0.440 m high, with globose root tubers. Leaves 6-12, cauline, suberect, narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblong, 80-150 x 10-20 mm. Inflorescence lax, racemose; flowers 10-30, resupinate, pale green to yellowish green. Sepals unequal; dorsal sepal 4 mm long. Petals divided, spreading; lower anterior lobes filiform, 4-6 mm long, smaller or as long as posterior lobe. Lip 3-lobed, midlobe 3.5 mm long, 2 side lobes shorter; spur 8-15 mm long, slightly curved, pendent, apex slightly inflated. Flowering time Jan.-Mar.
Lip 3-lobed with basal undivided part 1.3 mm long, all lobes linear; mid-lobe c. 3.5 × 0.5 mm; side lobes c. 2.4 mm long, slightly narrower than mid-lobe; spur 8–10 mm long, slender, pendent.
Terrestrial herb, up to 400 mm tall. Posterior petal lobe broader than anterior lobe. Midlobe of lip not or only slightly exceeding side lobes. Spur 10-12 mm long. Flowers green.
Leaves 8–10, the lowermost 2–3 sheath-like, the upper 2–3 bract-like, those in the middle 4.5–11 × 0.5–1 cm, narrowly lanceolate to linear.
Dorsal sepal 3–3.6 × 2.5–3 mm, ovate, erect, convex; lateral sepals 4.5–5.2 × 2–2.2 mm, obliquely lanceolate, deflexed.
Petals 2-lobed almost to base, the lobes more or less opaque; upper lobe 3–3.5 × 1.2 mm; lower lobe c. 2 × 0.4 mm.
Inflorescence 5–12 × 1 cm fairly laxly up to c. 20-flowered; bracts c. 15 × 4 mm, lanceolate, acute.
Anther 1.3 mm high; canals very short, 0.4 mm long.
Slender terrestrial herb 18–32 cm high.
Ovary and pedicel 8–14 mm long.
Stem leafy along its length.
Stigmas c. 1 mm long.
Flowers pale green.
