Platylepis A.Rich.

Terrestrial herbs; stem creeping at base, with tomentose roots. Leaves ovate, petiolate, sheathing at the base. Inflorescence terminal; scape with several sheaths; raceme few–many-flowered, short or long, narrow or wide; bracts conspicuous, often broad and glandular-pilose, longer than the ovaries. Sepals free; petals connivent with the dorsal sepal. Lip erect, adnate to the column for part of its length, saccate at the base with variously shaped calli, and reflexed at the apex. Column elongate; rostellum erect; bilobed; clinandrium and anther oblong, erect behind the rostellum; stigma papillose. Capsules oblong.