Stems short or elongated, often curved upward, 5-23 cm long, ca. 1 cm thick, with most of the leaves in two columns.

Leaves slightly fleshy or thickly leathery, banded 

Shape, curved, below middle often V 

Folding, 8-18 cm long 

metre, 1-1.9 cm wide, apex 

Slightly oblique and irregular 2- 

3 sharp teeth, base with persistent 

Stem sheath.

Inflorescences 1 or 2, 2-7 cm, sparsely 1-3-flowered; peduncle 1.5-3 cm; rachis ± flexuous, 1-3.5 cm; floral bracts broadly ovate, 3-5 × 2.5-4 mm, apex obtuse. Flowers thickly textured, widely opening, (2.5-)4-6.2 cm in diam., fragrant; pedicel and ovary 2-4.5 cm; sepals and petals white to cream-yellow, not tessellated. Dorsal sepal oblanceolate, 14-26 × 6-8 mm, base cuneate, apex obtuse; lateral sepals slightly oblique, ovate, 16-26 × 9-11 mm, base cuneate, apex obtuse. Petals oblong-lanceolate, 15-28 × 3-6 mm, base cuneate, apex acute; lip pale cream-colored, streaked with purple to red, thickly fleshy, ca. as long as or longer than sepals, spurred; lateral lobes erect, abaxially cream-yellow, adaxially purplish red, ovate-triangular, 2.5-4 × 2-3 mm, apex obtuse; mid-lobe adaxially cream-yellow with 8 or 9 purplish red longitudinal stripes, ligulate to broadly ovate, 7-10 × 6-8 mm, apex obtuse-acuminate; disk carinate with 3 small ridges; spur conic-obconic, 4-5 mm, apex obtuse. Column cream-yellow to white, 3-5 mm; anther cap cream-yellow, ca. 3 mm wide. Fl. Mar-May.