Small to large and coarse epiphytic herbs up to about 50 cm. tall. Stems usually stipitate below, swollen into an ellipsoidal or fusiform pseudobulb above, bifoliate. Leaves 5-25 cm. long and 1.5-5 cm. broad, linear-elliptic to elliptic to lanceolate to oblanceolate, acute, coriaceous. Inflorescence a fascicle of flowers borne at the apex of the pseudobulb. Dorsal sepal 7-11 mm. long and 1.5-2 mm. broad, elliptic, acute. Lateral sepals 7-11 mm. long and 2-3 mm. broad, lanceo-late, arcuate, acute. Petals 6-10 mm. long and 1.5-3 mm. broad, elliptic-lanceolate, acute. Lip 6.5-10 mm. long and 2.5-4.5 mm. broad, oblanceolate to narrowly obovate, obscurely 3-lobed, obtuse, apiculate.