Stenoglottis Lindl.

Terrestrial or epiphytic herbs with short stems and fleshy or tuber-like roots. Leaves in a basal rosette or tuft, numerous. Scapes erect, bearing a few scattered sheaths. Flowers numerous in an elongated raceme, usually pink with darker spots; bracts small, shorter than the ovary. Sepals united for a short distance to the column and lip, otherwise free, the laterals oblique, spreading later. Petals often a little broader than the sepals, oblique, erect. Lip unspurred or with a short spur, united to the column, wedge-shaped, 3–5-lobed in the upper part, longer than the tepals. Column very short and broad; anther loculi parallel, canals absent; caudicles of pollinia short, viscidia naked, auricles ligulate, longer or shorter than the anther; stigmas ± club-shaped, rostellum very short. Capsules ellipsoid or cylindrical-ellipsoid, erect.