Stems tan, pale pink, to pale brown-purple, 30–50 cm; sheathing bracts 3–5. Inflorescences: floral bracts lanceolate to ovate, 5–15 × 3–4 mm. Flowers 5–15(–20), pedicellate, chasmogamous; sepals and petals strongly recurved, tan to pinkish brown; dorsal sepal oblong-elliptic to lanceolate, 15–25 × 3–8 mm; lateral sepals obliquely elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, 15–22 × 3–8 mm; petals narrowly elliptic to obovate or oblanceolate, slightly falcate, 15–19 × 4.5–7.5 mm; lip broadly elliptic, deeply 3-lobed, 13–18 × 9–13 mm, fissure between lobes more than 3 mm deep, middle lobe white with purple, pale yellow near base, obovate-cuneate, apex truncate to retuse, lateral lobes incurved, oblong, obtuse, 1/2–2/3 length of middle lobe; lamellae 3, 5, or 7, white to yellow, obscure; column purple abaxially, white-purple adaxially, 9–15 mm; anther yellow. Capsules 20 × 5 mm.
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