Erect terrestrial herbs up to about 3.5 dm. tall. Stems short, cormous, hypo-gaeous, bifoliate, covered with the scarious bases of the sheaths and petiole. Leaves long-petiolate; lamina 3.5-14 cm. long and 2-7 cm. broad, lanceolate-ovate to broadly ovate, acuminate, membranaceous, reaching to about the middle of the peduncle. Inflorescence a short, dense, many-flowered, subumbellate raceme. Dorsal sepal 3-4 mm. long and 1.2-1.8 mm. broad, broadly lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or obtuse. Lateral sepals 3-4 mm. long and 1-1.5 mm. broad, ligulate-lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, acute, connate to the middle or less. Petals 2-2.5 mm. long and 0.2-0.5 mm. broad, linear, acute or obtuse. Lip 3.5-4.5 mm. long and 1.5-3 mm. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acute, cochleate, with 2 small lateral or inframarginal teeth below the apex.
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