Terrestrial leafy herbs. Leaves radical or cauline, contracted or petiolate at the base. Inflorescence a terminal, compact or loose spike. Flowers mostly small, non-resupinate. Sepals subequal or the dorsal narrower, free or joined into a short tube at the base, subconnivent to recurved. Petals linear to nearly as broad as the sepals. Lip uppermost, erect or parallel to the column, contracted or unguicu-late at the base, simple or 3-lobed lamina plane or concave or subgaleate. Column subterete, erect, wingless, glabrous or villous; anther, erect in the clinandrium; pollen granular or dust-like. Capsule ovoid, erect.
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