Caespitose or repent epiphytic herbs. Stems indurated or pseudobulbose, simply branched, or fasciculately branched (superimposed) above. Leaves 1-3 from the apex of the segments of the stem or pseudobulbs, thin and grass-like to coriaceous or fleshy and terete. Inflorescence a fascicle or a raceme, terminal on the growths or segments of the stem. Sepals subequal, erect. Petals similar to the sepals but usually smaller. Lip articulated from the tip of the column-foot or subarticulated, straight, geniculate, reflexed or recurved, clawed or clawless, entire or 3-lobed, often emarginate. Column short, wingless or winged or auricu-late, produced into a more or less distinct foot at the base; anther terminal, operculate, incumbent, the loculae provided with longitudinal septae; pollinia 4 or 6, if 6 then all of equal size or two smaller than the others, ceraceous, laterally compressed (at least 4 of each set compressed).
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