Plants terrestrial, slender, decumbent to erect, 0.05-0.20 m high. Leaves 1-3, lowest spreading near the ground, upper erect, the largest ovate, obtuse, V-shaped, 10-40 mm long. Inflorescence fairly dense, 15-23-flowered; bracts deflexed. Flowers dull yellowish green tinged pale to dark purple. Sepals fused to petals and base of lip for 1/4 of their length, apices deflexed; median sepals narrowly ovate, 3-4 mm long; lateral sepals broadly ovate, 3-4 mm long. Lip ovate-deltate, flat, without an apical flap; spur 6-10 mm long. Flowering time Oct., Nov.
Slender, tuberous geophyte to 15 cm. Leaves 1-3, spreading near the ground, ovate-acute, bracts deflexed. Flowers many in a moderately dense raceme, dull yellowish green tinged pale to dark purple, sepals 3-4 mm long, spurs 6-10 mm long.