Plants 5.5-11 cm tall. Tubers ovoid, ca. 2 cm. Stem with 1 tubular cataphyll at base, 1-or 2-leaved. Leaves abaxially dark greenish purple, adaxially dark green netted with purplish brown, suborbicular to ovate, 1.5-3 × 1-2.5 cm, base cordate to rounded, apex acute. Inflorescence 5-9.5 cm, with 2 or 3 narrowly ovate sterile bracts; rachis 1-3.5 cm, laxly 1-4-flowered; floral bracts ovate, ca. 6 mm, apex acuminate. Flowers white and purple; pedicel and ovary erect, sometimes slightly arcuate, 12-20 mm. Dorsal sepal ovate, 5-6.5 × 2-3 mm, 3-veined, apex acute; lateral sepals ovate-elliptic, oblique, 6-7 × 2.5-3 mm, 1-veined, apex acute. Petals ovate, slightly oblique, 4.5-5 × ca. 2 mm, 1-veined, apex acute; lip oblong to obovate, 9-11 × 6-8 mm, truncate, simple, margin undulate and slightly crenulate toward apex, apex obtuse or occasionally emarginate; spur conic to urceolate, 6-8 mm, slightly downcurved toward apex. Column ca. 2 mm; rostellum ligulate, ca. 1.5 mm. Fl. Oct.
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