Caespitose epiphytic herbs up to 3 dm. tall. Secondary stems 6-10 cm. long, slender, covered with scarious sheaths. Leaves petiolate; lamina 5-12 cm. long and 0.8-2 cm. broad, elliptic, obtuse or acutish; petioles 2-4 cm. long, sulcate. Inflorescence up to 22 cm. long, exceeding the subtending leaf; bracts about 2 mm. long, infundibuliform. Sepals connate at the base, papilliferous within; dorsal sepal about 6 mm. long and 2 mm. broad, lanceolate-ovate, apiculate; lateral sepals about 4.5 mm. long and 2 mm. broad, ovate-lanceolate, slightly oblique. Petals about 1 mm. long and about 1.3 mm. broad, flabellate, callus-thickened toward the truncate apex. Lip about 1 mm. long and 0.5 mm. broad, linguiform, with an erect but obscure lobule on each side near the middle, callus-thickened below, terminal part slightly concave above and slightly narrower than the basal portion.
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