Plants epiphytic, climbing. Stems with pseudobulbs distributed 2–8 cm along conspicuous rhizome; pseudobulbs nearly cylindric to ovoid, 1.5–3 cm. Leaves 1 per shoot; blade lanceolate, 9–20 × 0.9–2 cm, almost leathery, apex acute. Inflorescences several, at base of mature shoots, less than 1 cm. Flowers white to light yellow [purplish in Jamaican populations] with yellow-orange lip; sepals ovate, 6–7 × 3–3.5 mm, leathery, apex acute; lateral sepals 1/3 connate; petals ovate-elliptic, 4.5–5 × 2–2.5 mm, apex keeled, acute; lip continuous with column foot, deltate to 3-lobate, 2.5–4 × 3 mm when spread, lateral lobes somewhat erect; callus a simple transverse ridge connecting lateral lobes; column cylindric, stout, less than 2.5 mm, foot less than 1 mm. Capsules 7–8 mm.
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