Plants 11-44 cm tall. Roots 1.5-3.5 mm in diam. Leaves 2-6, erect and spreading, linear to oblanceolate, 4-12 × 0.5-0.9 cm, apex acute. Inflorescence erect, 10-42 cm, becoming densely glandular pubescent distally; rachis 3.5-13 cm, with many spirally arranged flowers; floral bracts lanceolate, sparsely glandular pubescent, apex acuminate. Flowers creamy white; ovary green, ca. 4 mm, glandular pubescent. Dorsal sepal forming a hood with petals, oblong, cymbiform, ca. 4 × 1.5 mm, outer surface glandular pubescent, apex obtuse; lateral sepals oblong-lanceolate, slightly oblique, ca. 4 × 1.5 mm, outer surface glandular pubescent, apex obtuse. Petals sometimes tinged pale pink, oblong, slightly oblique, ca. as long as dorsal sepal, thinly textured, apex obtuse; lip broadly oblong, 4-5 × ca. 2.5 mm, basal portion thickened and with 2 transparent, spherical glands, lateral margins erect and crisped, apex truncate-obtuse and recurved; disk papillate. Column erect, ca. 1 mm; anther ovoid; pollinia ca. 1 mm; rostellum triangular-lanceolate; stigma slightly raised, shield-shaped, distinctly 3-lobed. Fl. Mar-Apr. 2n = 60*.
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