Small terrestrial herbs up to about 15 cm. tall. Stems short, cormous, covered with the bases of the petioles and bracts. Leaves long-petiolate; lamina 1.5-5.5 cm. long and 1.3-4.5 cm. broad, broadly ovate, obtuse or acute, crenulate or obscurely serrate, membranaceous, borne about the middle of the peduncle. In-florescence many-flowered, subumbellate. Sepals 2.5-4 mm. long and 1.5-2.5 mm. broad, broadly lanceolate, obtuse. Petals about 2.5-3 mm. long, filiform. Lip 3.5-5 mm. long and 3-3.5 mm. broad, quadrate in outline; apex 3-lobate, the mid-lobe small and exceeded by the lateral lobes in length, lateral lobes large, rounded, obtuse, the basal auricles linear-lanceolate, acute, erect; disc with two shallow cavities.
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