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Leaf solitary, appearing after flowering, prostrate to suberect (blade up to 5 cm above litter surface), glabrous, 1.8–5.5 × 2–6.5 cm, broadly cordate or reniform, subacute to obtuse, dark olive-green above and purple beneath, or shiny green above, sometimes tessellate with silver, and green or ± purple beneath; veins (5)7–9; petiole c. 0–5 cm long, sulcate with 1–2 sheathing cataphylls.
Lip 9.5–20 × 4–7 mm, oblong, 3-lobed, white to pale pink with purple-violet shortly papillate markings; lateral lobes short, obtuse, erect, tightly clasping the column; mid-lobe (=epichile) 3–9.5 mm long, ovate, with a convex central ridge and an incurved margin.
Sepals and petals spreading, closing again after about 8 hours anthesis, subequal, ligulate, acute, brownish-green; lateral sepals slightly oblique, 10–22 × 2.5–3.5 mm; petals slightly narrower than sepals.
Column almost straight, 6–10 mm long, clavate, pubescent on ventral side; pollinia yellow, 2–3 mm long; ovary 2–7 mm long; capsule 7.5–10 × 4–5 mm.
Scape erect, terete, 1-flowered, with 2 sheathing cataphylls, lengthening to 8.6–21 cm when fruiting; bract 1.5–5.5(10.5) mm long.
Erect terrestrial herb 2–10(13) cm tall, glabrous except for subterranean parts.
Tuber 6–15 mm in diameter, subspherical or ovoid,(2)3(4)-noded.
Flowers greenish-yellow or yellowish, tinged and marked mauve
Leaves reniform, green above, tinged purple beneath.
A small terrestrial or chid 2-8 in. high
Flowers small, ± horizontal, fragrant.
