Plants to 60 cm. Roots several, 1.5–5 cm × 5–15 mm. Stems subterranean. Leaves spreading, pale green to gray-green, 3–5, glabrous; petiole 0.5–5 cm; blade lanceolate, elliptic to oblanceolate, 2–10.9 × 0.8–3.3 cm, apex obtuse, acute, or acuminate. Inflorescences glabrous; scapes 6.5–30 cm; bracts numerous, overlapping proximally, distant distally; racemes many-flowered, 6.5–29 cm; floral bracts erect, lanceolate, 3–4.5 mm, apex acuminate. Flowers reflexed, brownish green to coppery, slightly swollen basally, subsalverform, glabrous; sepals linear-lanceolate; dorsal sepal 4–6 × 0.7–1.2 mm; lateral sepals basally connate 1–1.5 mm, falcate, 4–6.5 × 0.7–1.2 mm; petals connate and adnate to dorsal sepal, falcate, linear-lanceolate, 4–5 × 0.5–1.2 mm; lip sometimes auriculate, short-unguiculate, elliptic-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 3.5–6 × 1–2.5 mm, apex obtuse-rounded; column clavate, 2–2.5 mm; pedicellate ovary erect, subsessile, 2.5–4 mm, apically geniculate. Capsules ovoid, 4–6 mm.
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