Small caespitose epiphytic herbs up to 15 cm. tall. Secondary stems very short, bearing a leaf and an inflorescence. Leaves 6-9 cm. long and 1.1-1.5 cm. broad, oblanceolate, obtuse, attenuated into a petiole at the base, coriaceous, 3-nerved. Inflorescence slender, (1?-) 2-flowered, peduncle much exceeding the leaves. Sepals about 25 mm. long, connate into a tube for about /2. their length; tube `1-14 mm. long, free part of the sepals 9-14 mm. long, consisting of sub-filiform caudae from a very short free lamina. Petals about 4 mm. long and 1.5 mm. broad, linear-oblong, truncate and tridentate at the apex, 1-nerved, with an elongated, sublamellate callus which extends from near the base to near the apex along the anterior margin; another callus begins near the base and extends to and off at the base forming a free, curved, cauda-like process, the free part about i mm. long. Lip about 6 mm. long and 2 mm. broad, linear-oblong, trun-cate and retuse at the base, the apex rounded, somewhat dilated and ciliate, fleshy, somewhat canaliculate, keeled on the mid-nerve below.
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