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Plants aphyllous; stems to 30 mm long; roots undulating, smooth; scale-leaves acute to acuminate, to 5 mm long. Inflorescences to 90 mm long, sometimes to 10 simultaneously, with up to 20 flowers; peduncle to 15 mm long; bracts to 2.5 mm long. Flowers to 14 mm long, white and rust-brown at the base of the perianth lobes; ovaries 1.6-3.2 mm long. Sepals obovate to oblong, to 7 mm long and 2 mm wide. Petals reflexed at the apex, to 3.9-6.4 x 1.3-1.8 mm. Lip broadly obovate, with a thickening on each side of the spur entrance, 5-7.5 mm long and 3-5 mm wide; spur slender, curved, tapering, 3.3-5.6 mm long. Gynostemium 1.1-1.6 mm long.
Inflorescences up to 10 per plant, erect or pendent, to 9 cm long, laxly or densely up to c. 20-flowered. Peduncle to 15 mm long; rhachis straight or slightly flexuose; bracts mostly sheathing, to 2.5 mm long.
Dorsal sepal 3.7–6 × 1.2–2 mm, obovate to oblong, obtuse, apiculate, slightly convex; lateral sepals 5.2–7.3 × 1.7–2.3 mm, oblong, oblique, acute, the apices reflexed.
Lip 4.9–7.6 × 3.5–5.1 mm, indistinctly pandurate or obovate, folded, thickened on each side of the spur mouth; spur 3.3–5.6 mm long, slender, conical, incurved.
Flowers up to 14 mm long, including ovary and pedicel, white, the tip of spur and base of sepals rust-brown.
Roots few to many, to 35 cm long, 2–3 mm in diameter, smooth, terete, silvery-white with darker streaks.
Petals 3.9–6.4 × 1.3–1.8 mm, obovate to oblong, oblique, apiculate, the apices reflexed.
Pedicel to 3.2 mm long; ovary 1.6–3.2 mm long, furrowed, slightly curved.
Scale leaves to 5 mm long, acute to acuminate, 5–7-nerved.
Column 1.1–1.6 mm long, dorsally slightly lobed.
Stem to 3 cm long.
Epiphytic herb.
