Small repent or caespitose epiphytic herbs. Stems (secondary stems) generally unifoliate, with several loose, often ciliate and pubescent, sheaths below. Leaves coriaceous. Inflorescence terminal, 1 or few from the base of the leaves, the flowers small, often distichous. Sepals subequal, often more or less connate at the bases or the laterals connate nearly to their apices. Petals shorter than the sepals, bipartite or transversely bilobed, usually short-unguiculate and adnate to the column, except L. eximim. Lip bibbed or sometimes trilobed, with the mid-lobe small and inconspicuous, adnate to the column, the lobes usually appearing as wings. Column short, footless, wingless, dilated at the apex; anther terminal, operculate, incumbent; pollinia 2, waxy.
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