INDIA. Lehari-Garhwal, near Mussoorie, 6000 ft, 30.08.1901, Mackinnon P. W., 25421 (Holotype: K! [K000079024]; Isotype: AMES! [AMES00100258]).

Plant 15–30 cm tall. Tuber oblong, 7–1.5 × 5–12 mm. Stem with tubular sheaths and 2 basal, subopposite leaves. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 10–16 × 1–1.5 cm, acute to acuminate. Inflorescence 10–20 cm, cylindrical, with or without peduncle-scales, rachis 10–15 cm, subdensely many-flowered, floral bracts 5 mm, broadly lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than the ovary. Flowers subsecund, spreading, 5–10 mm across, ovary straight, slightly beaked at 6 mm. Dorsal sepals ovate-oblong, 2.5–3.5 × 1.5–2 mm, obtuse; lateral sepals obliquely ovate-oblong, 2–3 × 1.5–2 mm, acute. Petals linear-lanceolate, 3 × 1 mm, apex acute. Lip deflexed, 3-lobed above middle, basal part concave, dilated and with a small concavity atthe base, lateral lobes linear, apex acute, midlobe lanceolate, apex obtuse. Column 1 mm, anther cells parallel, pollinia ovate ellipsoid, caudicles very short, viscidium discoid, rostellum triangular armed, stigma 2, transversely oblong, lying beneath the rostellum.

July–August.

Terrestrial or epiphytic on trunk or large branches of oak trees at elevations of 2400–2700 m.

India, Nepal.

NEPAL: Koshi, Bhuje Danda to Tamur River, 2700 m, 03.08.1989, Grey-Wilsonet al., 135 (KATH); Mechi, Ilam District, Hille-Chintapu, 2450 m, 07.10.1977, Pradhan P., Rajbhandari K. R. and Niraula R., 289 (KATH).