Stem short, often pendulous. Leaves subbasal, 4 or 5, subcylindric or compressed cylindric, ± laterally compressed and equitant at base, often slightly curved, 4-14 cm × 3-5(-6) mm, fleshy, veins inconspicuous, base with white transparent scarious margin on one side, articulate, apex acuminate. Peduncle cylindric, 6-9 cm, wingless; sterile bracts many, narrowly lanceolate, ca. 3 mm; raceme pendulous, cylindric, 4-6 cm, 3-3.5 mm in diam., densely many flowered; floral bracts lanceolate, 2.5-3 mm, membranous, margin irregularly dentate, apex long acuminate. Flowers white or greenish white, lip and column often slightly tinged with pale yellowish brown; pedicel and ovary 0.5-0.8 mm. Sepals subelliptic or oblong-ovate, 1-1.3 × ca. 0.7 mm, abaxially often with setiform projections near apex, veins inconspicuous, apex obtuse; lateral sepals often slightly wider than dorsal sepal. Petals narrowly oblong, 1-1.2 × ca. 0.2 mm, abaxially with setiform protrusions near apex, apex obtuse; lip suboblong, 1-1.3 mm, inconspicuously 3-lobed; lateral lobes with several irregularly fimbriate laciniae on margins; mid-lobe with several similar laciniae on margin, central lacinia to 1 mm, longer than lateral ones. Column short, stout. Capsule subellipsoid, ca. 4 × 2.5-3 mm; fruiting pedicel less than 0.5 mm. Fl. and fr. Aug-Oct.
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