Microcoelia caespitosa (Rolfe) Summerh.

An epiphytic plant with a short, often stout stem, 10–31 mm. long, 2.5–5 mm. in diameter.. Roots few–many, undulating and twisting, branched, terete, smooth, up to 90 cm. long, 1.5–2.5 mm. wide.. Scale-leaves acuminate, with 6–7 nerves, up to 5–7 mm. long.. Inflorescences erect, spreading, up to 30 mm. long, up to 10 simultaneously, each with up to 22 flowers; peduncle up to 10 mm. long; rhachis straight to indistinctly flexuose, terete; bracts sheathing, acute to subacute, up to 2 mm. long.. Flowers up to 17.5 mm. long, whitish or fading into greenish white; pedicel 4.7–8.2 mm. long; ovary 1.1–2.9 mm. long.. Dorsal sepal hooded, oblong, obtuse to subacute, 2.5–3.5 mm. long, 1–1.9 mm. wide; lateral sepals asymmetrical, ovate, obtuse to subapiculate, convex, 2.7–4 mm. long, 2–2.6 mm. wide.. Petals obovate, obtuse or subacute, 2.3–3 mm. long, 1.2–1.8 mm. wide.. Lip small, obscurely 3-lobed, 2.5–3.6 mm. long, 1.1–1.9 mm. wide; mid-lobe triangular-shaped, flat or cup-shaped, straight or deflexed; side lobes indistinct with well-developed thickening on each side of the spur.. Spur long, pendent, basal part constricted, central part inflated, tapering into an obtuse apex, 7.4–11.3 mm. long.. Column 1.2–2.2 mm. long.