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Plants aphyllous; stems to 40 x 3 mm; roots numerous, branching, twisted, to 350 x 1-2 mm; scale-leaves acuminate, to 5 mm long. Inflorescences erect to pendulous, 50-150 mm long, peduncle very slender; bracts papery, ovate, acute, 1 mm long, as long as pedicels. Flowers minute, not twisted, 1.5 mm in diameter, white. Sepals and petals subequal, convex, slightly connate at the base, obovate, obtuse, 1-1.5 x 0.4-0.8 mm, petals slightly smaller than sepals. Lip rounded to semi-orbicular, 0.6-1.1 x 0.4-0.8 mm; spur globose, 0.6-1 mm in diameter. Gynostemium 0.2-0.5 mm long. Capsules ellipsoid to oblong, 3.5-5 x 3 mm.
Roots numerous, much-branched, 1–2(3) mm in diameter, clinging closely to the substrate when young but later forming hanging masses which often become detached.
Flowers very small, 2 mm long including ovary, rather bell-shaped, white with greenish spur and yellow-green anther cap.
Lip suborbicular, barely 1 mm long and slightly less wide; spur globose, 0.5–1 mm long and wide.
Inflorescences up to c. 20 per plant, erect to pendent, to 25 cm long, densely many-flowered.
Sepals 1–1.5 × 0.7 mm, obovate, obtuse; petals similar but shorter.
Scale leaves to 4.5 mm long, 3–8-nerved, rostrate to acuminate.
Stem living portion up to 3.5 cm long, usually less.
Capsule 3–4 × 2–3 mm, ellipsoid, straw-coloured.
Ovary sessile or subsessile, 0.5–1 mm long.
Ephiphtyic herb, rarely lithophytic.
Bracts 0.5–1 mm long, not sheathing.
Peduncle short, 1.5–3 cm long.
Column less than 0.5 mm long.
