Dwarf epiphytic monopodial herbs. Stems very short, covered by sheathing leaf-bases. Leaves distichous, fleshy-coriaceous, linear-elliptic. Inflorescences 1–many, shorter than to longer than the leaves, densely few-flowered. Flowers large for size of plant, white with a green mark on the lip. Sepals and petals free, subsimilar. Lip deflexed, entire, spurred at the base; spur pendent, clavate. Column short, fleshy; rostellum porrect, hammer-shaped, 2-lobed; pollinia 2, globose; stipites 2, small, very short, filiform; viscidium obovate, large.
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