Plants to 40 cm, glabrous (except roots). Roots fasciculate, fingerlike, 3–8 mm diam., fleshy. Leaves 2–4; petiole 1–3 cm; blade elliptic to suborbiculate, 1.5–8 × 0.8–3 cm, base cuneate, margins entire, apex acute to rounded. Inflorescences slender; scape 12–31 cm, partially covered by sheathing bracts; spike to 17 cm, densely many-flowered; floral bracts ovate to lanceolate, clasping base of ovary, 1.5–4 mm, apex acuminate. Flowers minute, glabrous; sepals reflexed-spreading, pinkish, 1-veined, 1–2.2 × 1 mm; dorsal sepal reflexed, ovate, curled; lateral sepals adnate with lip forming short mentum, triangular to deltate, slightly larger than dorsal sepal; petals reflexed, white or pink, narrowly obovate to oblong, 1–1.5 × 0.5 mm; lip erect, white, basally auriculate, hoodlike, enclosing column, shallowly saccate, 1–2 mm, fleshy, apiculate; column adaxially adnate to sepal tube, minute (0.3 mm), apex winged; ovary sessile, 1.5–3.5 mm. Capsules erect, ellipsoid, 4 mm.
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Small erect terrestrial herbs up to about 32 cm. tall. Leaves 1.5-7 cm. long and 0.8-3 cm. broad,-basal,' membranaceous, suberect or spreading, elliptic to cordate or obovate, acute or obtuse; petiole shorter than the lamina, usually much shorter. Scape erect, slender, glabrous, with several bracts which are reduced upward. Inflorescence up to 10 cm. long, a densely flowered spike. Sepals 1.5-3 mm. long and 0.6-1 mm. broad, oblong-ovate, obtuse, the laterals oblique, connate into a short tube at the base and forming an inconspicuous mentum. Petals 1-1.5 mm. long and about 0.5 mm. broad, linear-oblong, obtuse, somewhat oblique. Lip 1.5-2 mm. long and as broad, suborbicular, strongly cucullate, with a small auriculate callus on either side at the base; the disc puberulent. Column about 0.5 mm. long.
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