Plants 20-45 cm tall. Rhizome inconspicuous. Pseudobulbs cylindric, 1-3 cm × 3-5 mm. Leaves 3-6, basal, well developed and spreading at anthesis, not deciduous; blade elliptic to ovate-elliptic, 10-23 × 4-12 cm, glabrous or abaxially sometimes with short hairs, apex acute; petiole-like base 6-20 cm, slender. Scapes 1 or 2, arising from leaf axils, erect, 10-28 cm, slender, densely puberulent; rachis 3-4 cm, subdensely to densely 3- to more than 10-flowered; floral bracts persistent, slightly recurved, broadly ovate-lanceolate, 5-10 mm, abaxially sparsely puberulent. Flowers white, sometimes tinged purplish violet; pedicel and ovary 10-20 mm, puberulent. Sepals similar, subobovate, ca. 10 × 6 mm