A dwarf epiphytic herb to 7 cm. high.. Pseudobulbs clustered, ovoid, 1.1 cm. long, 1 cm. in diameter, commonly 3-leaved at the apex.. Leaves narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, spreading, curved, conduplicate, obtuse or rounded at the apex, to 4 cm. long, 0.8 cm. broad, sage-green, spotted and lined with purple.. Inflorescence unbranched, erect, 3–9-flowered, to 5.5 cm. long; peduncle terete, villose, to 2 cm. long; bracts ovate, acuminate, 3 mm. long, 2 mm. wide.. Flowers yellow or dull light green; sepals lined with red; lip magenta with a greeny yellow callus.. Dorsal sepal ovate or oblong-ovate, concave, subacute, 5.5 mm. long, 3 mm. broad; lateral sepals obliquely ovate-triangular, acute, 6.5–8.5 mm. long, 6–7 mm. broad, forming with the column-foot a prominent conical mentum to 6 mm. high.. Petals narrowly linear-lanceolate, subacute, 5.2 mm. long, 1.1 mm. wide.. Lip geniculate, with a long claw nearly half the length of the lip, 3-lobed in the middle, 9–12 mm. long, 5 mm. broad; side lobes erect, rounded, 2.5 mm. long and broad; mid-lobe fleshy, bullate, oblong-lanceolate, acute, 4 mm. long, 2.4 mm. broad; callus fleshy, glabrous; disc pubescent at base.. Column short, subterete, stout, 1 mm. long, with a cluster of long bristles below the stigma, washed and spotted crimson; foot long, slender, pubescent.. Fig. 83A–H, p. 388.
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