Plants 30-50 cm tall. Stem fleshy, 4-6-leaved. Leaves cauline, oblong, oblique, 8-11 × 2.5-4.1 cm, 3-veined, base obliquely obtuse or rounded, apex acute; petiole-like base and sheath 2.8-3.3 cm. Inflorescence 24-26 cm, slender, pubescent; sterile bracts 4, pinkish brown, lanceolate, glabrous to sparsely pubescent; rachis subdensely 30-40-flowered, 8-10 cm, pubescent; floral bracts lanceolate, 7-9 mm, subequal in length to ovary, puberulent, margins ciliate below middle, apex acuminate. Flowers half opening; ovary and pedicel held close to rachis, olive-green, subcylindric, not twisted, 4.5-5.5 mm, densely pubescent. Sepals white, tinged light yellowish green at base, broadly ovate, outer surface densely pubescent, apex obtuse; dorsal sepal ca. 3.5 × 2.5 mm; lateral sepals oblique, ca. 4 × 2.2 mm. Petals incurved at apex, white, narrowly rhombic-obovate, falcate, ca. 4 × 1.3 mm, apex subacute; lip cream-colored, broadly ovate-cymbiform, ca. 4 mm, 2-partite, fleshy toward apex; hypochile saccate, ca. 3.5 mm, containing 8-10 papillous calli, distal margin involute; epichile ligulate, attenuate, ca. 0.5 mm, apex subacute. Column ca. 2.2 mm, stout; wings small, ovate; rostellum arms small, linear, ca. 0.5 mm. Fl. Mar-Apr.
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Stem 100–500 × 3–4 mm. Leaves 4–8, ovate to obovate, 50–80 × 25–35 mm, dark green, stalked. Flower stem 150–300 mm above rosette, hairy, 15–45-flowered. Flowers at right angles to ovary, 4–4.5 × 6–7 mm, green and white, hairy externally. Dorsal sepal obliquely deflexed, 3–3.5 × 2.5 mm, ovate, somewhat hooded. Lateral sepals porrect, 3.5–4 × 2 mm, blunt. Petals porrect, c. 3 × 1 mm, apex thickened, upcurved. Labellum c. 3.5 × 2.5 mm, white with translucent hairy apex and adjacent yellow patch; margins inrolled; base deeply pouched with about 12 small glands in 2 groups.
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