Dwarf, caespitose, epiphytic herbs, the distichous, congested, foliaceous stems 3.5-8 cm. tall. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate to ligular, acute, subcoriaceous, the blades 2-5.5 cm. long and 0.5-1 cm. wide, contracted below into short, conduplicate, imbricating petioles. Inflorescences 1 or 2 slender, erect, few-flowered racemes up to about 9 cm. long, produced from the subterminal leaf axils. Flowers averaging about 3.5 cm. in diameter, golden yellow striped with rich brown, the elongate, slender pedicels subtended by very short, inconspicuous, narrowly triangular bracts. Sepals narrowly triangular, acuminate, 3-nerved, 1.2-1.5 cm. long and 0.35-0.4 cm. wide, the central nerves thickened and carinate on the outer surfaces. Petals broadly rhombic-ovate, shortly and distinctly acute, much exceeding the sepals in width, 9-to 11-nerved, 2-2.5 cm. long and 1.8-2.1 cm. wide. Lip subequal to the petals, the sessile base adnate to the base of the column, the blade transversely rhombic-ovate, obtuse, minutely apiculate, 19-to 21-nerved, the nerves radiate without secondary transverse nervules, about 2 cm. long and 2.2-2.7 cm. wide, the disk with a short, rounded, densely pilose callus. Column about 5 mm. long, densely setose, the slender rostellum prominently projecting.
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