Malaxis katangensis Summerh.

A small terrestrial plant up to 15 cm. tall or rarely taller; rhizome creeping, slender but swollen and tuber-like below secondary stems.. Secondary stems 2(–3)-leaved, up to 2 cm. long.. Leaves prostrate or spreading, thin-textured, elliptic or ovate, obtuse, up to 6 cm. long and 4–5 cm. broad.. Inflorescence erect, up to 14 cm. long, rarely longer, densely many-flowered; raceme narrowly cylindrical; peduncle slender; bracts ovate or lanceolate, long-acuminate, 2–4 mm. long.. Flowers flat, translucent, pale green or pale yellow-green, turning orange with age.. Dorsal sepal elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse, 2.3–2.4 mm. long, 1–1.3 mm. broad; lateral sepals obliquely ovate, rounded at apex, 1.8–2.2 mm. long, 1.2–1.5 mm. broad.. Petals falcate, linear-lanceolate, rounded at apex, 1.7–2.2 mm. long, 0.3–0.6 mm. broad, margins papillose.. Lip obovate, auriculate at base, 1.5–1.8 mm. long, 1.6–1.8 mm. broad, with a central pubescent pad.. Column fleshy, 0.7 mm. long.