A small epiphytic herb up to 16 cm. high.. Pseudobulbs ovoid or subspherical, 1–2.5 cm. long, 5–10 mm. wide, browny green, clustered, covered when young with 2–3 obtuse ± scarious sheaths, 3–4-leaved above.. Leaves spreading or almost recurved, oblanceolate, oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, subacute, 0.8–8 cm. long, 5–13 mm. wide, green with a purple margin and irregularly purple-spotted.. Inflorescence racemose or rarely poorly branched, erect, 6–14 cm. high, laxly 7–12-flowered; peduncle 2–6 cm. long, terete or slightly compressed; bracts broadly ovate, acuminate, 6–11 mm. long, 5–7.5 mm. wide, sparsely pubescent.. Flowers ± secund, aniseed scented; pedicellate ovary 5–7 mm. long.. Dorsal sepal lanceolate, acuminate, convex, incurved, 8.5–11.5 mm. long, 1.75–3.25 mm. wide; lateral sepals obliquely or subfalcately triangular, apex longly subulate-acuminate, 11–15 mm. long, 4–5.5 mm. wide; mentum 3–4.5 mm. long; sepals all sparsely pubescent, yellowish olive-brown.. Petals curved-lanceolate or oblanceolate, acute or acuminate, 6–7.5 mm. long, 1.25–2 mm. wide, olive-ochre-yellow.. Lip recurved, shortly 3-lobed, with a short claw, 4–5 mm. long, 3.5 mm. wide, pubescent; side lobes erect, rotund-triangular, 0.5–0.7 mm. long; mid-lobe strongly recurved, ovate-lanceolate, acute, slightly grooved, 2.75–3.75 mm. long, 1.5–2.75 mm. wide; lip white with purple side lobes and a purple-margined mid-lobe.. Column short, broad; anther hemispherical.
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