Small pubescent terrestrial herbs up to about 3 dm. tall. Leaves basal, 5-20 cm. long and 0.8-5.2 cm. broad, variable, linear-lanceolate or oblanceolate to ovate, acute or acuminate, petiolate, strigose-pubescent on both surfaces, mem-branaceous. Inflorescence a few-several-flowered raceme on a slender bracteate peduncle. Dorsal sepal 9-14 mm. long and 3-4.5 mm. broad, elliptic to lanceolate, acute or acuminate, pubescent dorsally. Lateral sepals 9-14 mm. long and 5.5-8 mm. broad, broadly oval to obovate, obtuse, pubescent dorsally. Petals 6-9 mm. long and 2-3 mm. broad, oblique, obtuse, angled toward the base anteriorally, short-,unguiculate, inserted above the middle of the column. Lip 3-4 mm. long and 2-3 mm. broad, oblong to suborbicular, trilobulate, cucullate, with a hood-shaped callus which forms a cavity at the base, inserted near the apex of the column.
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