Small, caespitose, epiphytic herbs up to about 2 dm. tall. Secondary stems slender, strict, with one or two sheaths. Leaves 2.5-7.5 cm. long and 0.4-1.3 cm. broad, linear, elliptic or usually lanceolate, acute, coriaceous. Inflorescence a fascicle of long (2-3 cm.)-pedicellate flowers; one or more short, scarious bracts at the base. Dorsal sepal 5-7 mm. long and 2.5-3.5 mm. broad, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, cucullate. Lateral sepals connate to their apices, 4.5-5.5 mm. long and 2.5-3.5 mm. broad, broadly lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or acute, fleshy. Petals 4.5-5 mm. long and about 1-1.5 mm. broad, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, acuminate, papilliferous, the acumination subterete. Lip 3-3.5 mm. long and 1.5-2 mm. broad, papilliferous to subciliate, lanceolate to oblong-ovate, acute, truncate at the base, slightly constricted above the middle, fleshy, with a small V-shaped excavation above the middle and with 3 raised lines on the dorsal surface.
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