Stems stout, short, 2–6 in. long, clothed with the persistent, imbricate leaf-bases. Leaves ligulate or linear-oblong, shortly and very unequally bilobed, 4–8 in. long, 6–10 lin. broad. Racemes stout, erect or spreading, 6–9 in. long, dense-flowered almost to the base. Bracts ochreate, very short, alternate. Pedicels 1 lin. long. Flowers small, distichous, white, furfuraceous. Sepals broadly ovate, obtuse, 1 1/4–1 1/2 lin. long. Petals similar to but a little smaller than the sepals. Lip broadly unguiculate, suborbicular-obovate, obtuse or apiculate, slightly reflexed, 1 1/4–1 1/2 lin. long; spur stout, clavate, dorsally compressed, 1 1/2–2 lin. long. Column very stout, 1 lin. long; pollinia with a crescent-shaped gland, and 2 clavate, flattened stipites, denticulate at the margins.
