An epiphytic plant to 35 cm. long.. Stems approximate, pseudobulbous at the base, slender above, 3–4-leaved, 10–12 cm. long, 1–2 mm. diameter; pseudobulbs conical-ovoid, 5–10 mm. long, 4–7 mm. diameter.. Leaves suberect, linear, obtuse or unequally bilobed at the apex, 13–22 cm. long including the sheath, 3.4–5 mm. wide, yellow-green.. Inflorescence more or less erect, unbranched or with up to 4 secund branches, 7–24 mm. long; peduncle 4–15 cm. long, clothed in scarious imbricating sheaths; branches 1.5–4.5 cm. long; rhachis terete, pubescent; bracts spreading and recurved, broadly ovate or suborbicular, caudate-acuminate, 5–11 mm. long, 5–6 mm. wide, ± crimson, glabrous or sparsely pubescent.. Flowers white or cream marked with red, lip red-spotted, fragrant.. Dorsal sepal lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, subacute or apiculate, 7.5–9 mm. long, 2.5–3.25 mm. wide, convex; lateral sepals obliquely triangular-lanceolate, acute or apiculate, 8.5–12 mm. long, 4–6 mm. wide; mentum rounded, 3.5–5 mm. long.. Petals oblanceolate or subspathulate, acute or subacute, 6.5–7.75 mm. long, 1.5–2 mm. wide.. Lip recurved, shortly clawed, 3-lobed in middle, 8–10.5 mm. long, 6.25–7 mm. wide; side lobes erect, triangular-ovate, obtuse or rounded, 2.3–2.6 mm. long; mid-lobe recurved, quadrate-suborbicular or broadly semi-elliptic, rotund, 3–3.75 mm. long, 2.74–4 mm. wide, very slightly undulate; disc with a low longitudinal callus to base of mid-lobe, clavate-pilose on to side lobes and base of mid-lobe.. Column porrect, semiterete, 2.75 mm. long.
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