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Small epiphytic, occasionally lithophytic, herb.Pseudobulbs 10–20 × 7–8 mm, ovate to conical, green or reddish, 2–3-leaved.Leaves 4–12 × 1–1.5 cm, lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate, often purple-tinged or with a purple line around the edge.Inflorescence (floral axis) to 15 cm long, fairly densely up to c. 20-flowered.Peduncle, pedicel, ovary and bracts all minutely pubescent.Pedicel and ovary c. 7 mm long; bracts 7–14 mm long, ovate, acuminate.Sepals and petals yellowish or yellow-brown, tinged with purple, becoming deep orange-brown as the flowers age; lip white with purple spotting on the side lobes and centre of mid-lobe.Sepals sparsely pubescent; dorsal sepal 9–12 × 2–4 mm, lanceolate, acuminate; lateral sepals 9–13.5 × 5.5–7 mm, obliquely lanceolate, somewhat falcate, long acuminate, keeled on the outside; mentum conical, 4.5–5 mm high.Petals 6.5–7.5 × 0.5–2 mm, narrowly oblanceolate.Lip strongly recurved, hard to flatten, 9–11 × 5 mm, 3-lobed with a long claw; mid-lobe 5.5–6 × 2–4 mm, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, fleshy, bullate; side lobes erect, with a fleshy somewhat papillose callus lying between them.Column 1 mm long.