Stems erect, from short or long creeping rhizome, terete, leafy upward or more often with congested leaves apically. Leaves 3-7, subcoriaceous, ovate or ovate-oblong or narrowly lanceolate, 3.5-8.5 cm long, 1-3.5 cm wide, apex acuminate, base obtuse, margins flat, green, main veins 3. Peduncle 15-30 cm long, villose, with 1-3-sheaths near base; flowering portion of inflorescence 5-10 cm long, 10-20-flow-ered; floral bracts lanceolate, villose. Flowers not resupinate; ovaries not twisted, slightly bent back; sepals villose abaxially, green with white stripe, 5.3-5.8 mm long, dorsal one concave, lateral ones oblong, spreading; petals falcate, white, appressed to dorsal sepal and with it forming hood, hood perpendicular to ovary; lip tripartite, 6.5-7.5 mm long, white; hypochile saccate, keeled, bearing 4 papillae within; mesochile clawed, 1.5 mm long; epichile dilated and bilobed, lobules nearly orbicular, 3.5-4 mm long and wide, revolute; column somewhat flat and clavate, perpendicular to ovary, 4 mm long, with 4 tubular appendages on ventral side; anthers triangular-lanceolate, 2.8 mm long; pollinia 2.2 mm long, joined at tapered ends and attached to tegula stipe; stigmatic lobes 2, on ventral side of rostellum base; rostellum 2 mm long, cleft at apex, tegula stipe ovate-oblong, 1.3 mm long.

NANTOU: Chushan, Leou 3735; Hsinyi, Leou 4772; PINGTUNG: Lilungshan, Su & Chen, 9260.

Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. Taiwan, forests at low elevations in the center and south.

Excepting for the position and other features of the lip at anthesis, this species is similar to members of the genus Zeuxine in most other characters.