Small, caespitose, epiphytic herbs up to about 10 cm. tall. Secondary stems 2.5-6 cm. long, slender, usually a little longer than the leaves, with one or two sheathing bracts at the base. Leaves 3-5 cm. long and 0.5-0.8 cm. broad, ligulate to elliptic-oblanceolate, obtuse, coriaceous, submarginate. Inflorescence 1-flowered or a few-flowered fascicle, shorter than the subtending leaf. Dorsal sepal about 10 mm. long and 3.5-4 mm. broad, lanceolate, acuminate. Lateral sepals connate to their apices, about 10 mm. long and 4.5-5 mm. broad, broadly lanceolate, acuminate. Petals 5-6 mm. long and 2-2.5 mm. broad, broadly elliptic to sub-rhombic, acute or acuminate, lacerate-ciliate nearly to the base. Lip 3-3.5 mm. long and 2-2.5 mm. broad, simple, subcordate in outline, acuminate, the anterior margin somewhat serrulate, the disc covered with a thick callus simulating that found in species of Stelis; the callus with an anterior rim, an inconspicuous de-pression toward its apex and sharply declined to the attachment of the lip.
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