Microcoelia globulosa (Hochst.) L.Jonss.

An epiphytic plant with a short to long stem, up to 65 mm. long, 2–3 mm. diameter.. Roots few–many, characteristically undulating and twisting, terete, smooth, up to 35 cm. long, 1–2 mm. in diameter.. Scale-leaves acuminate to obtuse, up to 3.5 mm. long, with 5–7 nerves.. Inflorescences stiff, erect or descending, 5–10, up to 90 mm. long, each with up to 15 flowers; peduncle 15 mm. long; rhachis flexuose, variously furrowed and excavated with hook-shaped processes below the bracts; bracts sheathing at base, ovate, acute to subacuminate, up to 2.5 mm. long.. Flowers 10 mm. long, white, base of perianth and ovary yellow-green, tip of spur orange-brown; pedicel forming a distinct angle with the ovary, up to 3 mm. long; ovary 0.3–0.8 mm. long.. Dorsal sepal slightly convex, ovate, acute, ± apiculate, with a distinct outer central groove, 2.2–3.1 mm. long, 1.0–1.4 mm. wide; lateral sepals ovate to narrowly ovate, acute, ± apiculate, 2.5–3.5 mm. long, 0.9–1.3 mm. wide.. Petals obovate to elliptic, ± apiculate, narrowly thickened along central nerve, 2.1–3 mm. long, 0.8–1.2 mm. wide.. Lip pandurate, apically folded with a distinct cushion-like thickening at each side of spur-mouth, 2.2–3.3 mm. long, 1.2–1.8 mm. wide.. Spur characteristically incurved, base conical, tapering into a geniculate cylindrical part, apex obtuse and slightly inflexed, 2.1–3.3 mm. long.. Column 0.3–0.6 mm. long.