Small, caespitose, epiphytic herbs up to 10 cm. tall. Leaves 4.5-8 cm. long and 0.7-1.1 cm. broad, elliptic, petiolate, the lamina up to 5.5 cm. long. Secondary stems 1.5-2.5 cm. long, slender, much shorter than the leaves. Inflorescence about equalling the leaves in length; bracts about 1.5 mm. long, infundibuliform. Sepals 2-2.5 mm. long, rotate, deltoid-ovate. Petals about 1 mm. long, ovate to suborbicular, thickened nearly to the base, abruptly excavated below the thicken-ing, apex obscurely and minutely papillose. Lip about 0.i75 mm. long and 1.5 mm. broad, reniform, very fleshy, somewhat concave above with a prominent and obscurely bibbed callus in the middle, the sides of which are decurrent laterally and form a transverse ridge.
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