An epiphytic or lithophytic plant, 8–39 cm. high.. Stems clustered, erect, fleshy, somewhat pseudobulbous at base, narrowly conical, to 20 cm. high, 8 mm. diameter at base, 3–5-leaved towards apex; roots pinkish purple when cut.. Leaves deciduous, suberect, narrowly linear-lanceolate, grass-like, acute, to 29 cm. long, 6–8.5 mm. wide, Inflorescence unbranched, mostly borne after the leaves have fallen, shorter than the leaves, 4–11 cm. long, subdensely many-flowered; peduncle covered with 2 scarious acute sheaths; rhachis sparsely setulose-pubescent; bracts broadly deltoid-ovate, acuminate, 1–2 mm. long.. Flowers erect-spreading, pale lilac-rose with purple to magenta.. Dorsal sepal oblong-elliptic, rounded or slightly emarginate, 3.5–4 mm. long, 1.7–2 mm. wide; lateral sepals rotund-triangular, obtuse, dorsally shortly cuspidate below the apex, 4–5 mm. long and wide; mentum conical, subacute, 3–3.5 mm. long.. Petals ligulate or spathulate-ligulate, 3.5 mm. long, 0.6–1.4 mm. wide.. Lip shortly clawed, ecallose, very broadly 3-lobed in apical half, 3.5–4.5 mm. long, 6–7.1 mm. wide, whole surface farinaceous pubescent; side lobes spreading, elliptic-oblong, 3 mm. long, 2–2.5 mm. wide; mid-lobe broadly triangular, obtuse, 1–1.5 mm. long, 1.5–2 mm. wide.. Column 2 mm. long, almost terete.
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