plant 3–10 in. high; stem rather stout; leaves several, cauline, ovate or ovate-oblong, subobtuse or acute, 3/4–2 1/4 in. long, decreasing upwards into the bracts; scapes 3–10 in. high; spikes 1–4 in. long, dense, many-flowered; bracts ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 3–7 lin. long; pedicels 1 1/2 lin. long; flowers small, yellowish-white, sacs and apex of lip tinted with red-brown; odd sepal ovate-oblong, subobtuse, 2 lin. long; lateral sepals oblong, obtuse, spreading, about 2 1/2 lin. long; petals ovate-oblong, subacute, rather smaller than the odd sepal; lip galeate, 1 1/2 lin. long, broader than long, with a narrow inflexed margin; spurs saccate, 1/2 lin. long; column 1 1/4 lin. long; stigma obovate, pulvinate, about 1/2 lin. long; rostellum deflexed, obtuse, very short, with 2 tubercles at the base; capsule subglobose, 1 1/2 lin. long. null
