Erect terrestrial herbs up to about 2 dm. tall. Stems short, fleshy or cormous, unifoliate. Leaves long-petiolate; lamina 2-3 cm. long and about 2-2.5 cm. broad, broadly ovate-cordate, acute or short-acuminate, membranaceous; petiole sheathing the lower half of the peduncle. Inflorescence a sublax, many-flowered raceme up to, about 9 cm. long. Dorsal sepal 2.2-2.7 mm. long and about 1 mm. broad, elliptic-oblong, obtuse. Lateral sepals about 2-2.3 mm. long and together about 1.7 mm. broad, suborbicular-ovate, connate 3/4 their length. Petals about 2.5 mm. long and 0.5 mm. broad, linear, acute or obtuse. Lip 2.2-2.5 mm. long and 2-2.5 mm. broad, 3-lobed, the disc cochleate and with a carinate U-shaped ridge in front; mid-lobe triangular-lanceolate; lateral lobes oblong-ovate.
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