Plants terrestrial, slender, 0.17-0.29 m high. Leaves 2-4; basal leaf large, broadly ovate; cauline leaves lanceolate to elliptic, subacute, up to 160 x 50 mm. Inflorescence lax, up to 100 mm long, 5-many flowers. Flowers 20 x 15 mm, sepals purplish green, petals white and green, lip and appendage white. Sepals unequal; median sepal elliptic, acute, 6-8 x 2-4 mm, adnate to petals; lateral sepals reflexed, oblique, subacute, concave basally, 7-9 x 4-5 mm. Petals broad, 6-9 x 6-11 mm. Lip deltate, acute, 3-5 mm long, with 2 stout, deflexed side lobes, appendage obdeltate with a longitudinal ridge, 4-5 x 5 mm. Flowering time Jan.-Mar.
Slender herb, up to 0.3 m high. Flowers: inflorescence lax to dense, 5-many; lip apex pointed; lip appendage with a vertical ridge in front, lateral lobes of lip not overlapping midlobe; sepals pale green to purplish green; petals white and green or purplish on inner half; lip and appendage white; Jan.-Mar.