An epiphytic herb with a short spreading leafy stem up to 5 cm. long.. Roots slender, 1 mm. in diameter, elongate.. Leaves falcate, linear, unequally obtusely bilobed at the apex, 12–18 cm. long, 1.3–2 cm. wide, articulated to a sheathing leaf-base and twisted to lie in one plane.. Inflorescences pendent, densely 5–8-flowered, 6–9 cm. long; peduncle slender, wiry; bracts ovate, amplexicaul, 1.5 mm. long.. Flowers white, stellate but not opening widely; pedicel and ovary 8–10 mm. long.. Dorsal sepal elliptic, acute, 7 mm. long, 3.5 mm. wide; lateral sepals obliquely lanceolate, acuminate, 8 mm. long, 2 mm. wide.. Petals decurrent on the column-foot, ovate, acute, 7 mm. long, 3.5 mm. wide.. Lip ovate, shortly apiculate, obscurely 3-lobed, 7 mm. long, 6 mm. wide; side lobes erect, rounded; mid-lobe broadly ovate; callus a longitudinal narrow ridge from the base to the base of the midlobe.. Spur slenderly cylindrical from a broad mouth, incurved, 20 mm. long.. Column 2 mm. long; rostellum 3-lobed, 2 mm. long, with lobes papillate and subequal; pollinia 2, each attached by a linear stipe to an ovate viscidium.
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