A terrestrial herb 10–25 cm tall.Basal leaves 2–6 in a basal rosette, 1–4.5 × 0.5–1.5 cm, narrowly elliptic to ovate, acute, narrowed at the base into a pale sheathing petiole; cauline leaves 3–5, lax, 0.5–2 cm long, lanceolate, acute with recurved apices.Inflorescence a laxly 8–25-flowered spike; rhachis 2–11 cm long; bracts half as long as the ovary, green to somewhat chartaceous, acute.Flowers small, 1.5–2 mm long, yellow with green sepals, more or less resupinate; ovary 3–7 mm long.Sepals and petals not spreading.Dorsal sepal concave, 1.5–2 × 1 mm, obovate, cucullate at the obtuse apex; lateral sepals 1.5–2 × 1–1.3 mm, obliquely elliptic, rounded at the apex.Petals more or less enclosed by the sepals, slightly shorter and broader than the sepals, obliquely ovate, obtuse.Lip 1–1.5 × 1.5 mm, 3-lobed; side lobes curved up either side of the column, subquadrate; mid-lobe triangular, 0.5 mm long; spur straight or curved, 0.5–1.2 mm long, subconical.Column with a 0.4 mm long square rostellum; anther 0.5 mm high, erect.