CHINA. Yunnan, Lijiang, 10000 ft, 07.1906, Forrest G., 2466 (Holotype: E! [E00188160]; Isotypes: K! [K000079034], P! [P00378738]).

Plant 6–26 cm tall. Tubers globose to ovoid, 10–30 × 5–15 mm. Stem with 2–3 tubular sheaths and 1–3 leaves at base. Leaves elliptic-lingulate, 2–10 × 0.5–3 cm, apex obtuse. Inflorescence 4–20 cm; peduncle cylindrical, ebractiate or rarely single foliaceous sterile bract, 0.5–3 cm; rachis 1–14 cm, laxly many flowered; floral bracts lanceolate, 2–5 mm, shorter than ovary, apex acuminate. Flowers yellowish green; pedicel and ovary arcaute, twisted, beaked at apex, 4–10 mm. Dorsal sepal oblong-lanceolate, 3.5–5 × 1–2 mm, apex obtuse; lateral sepals oblong-lanceolate, 3–5 × 1–2 mm, apex obtuse. Petals narrowly lanceolate-caudate, falcate, 5–7 × 0.6–0.9 mm, apex obtuse. Lip oblong, 5–7 × 1.5–2.5 mm, base deeply concave with 1 mm, globose spur, 3- lobed at or below middle; lateral lobes linear, 2–4 × ca. 0.5 mm at base; mid-lobe linear, 3–5 × ca. 0.4 mm, apex acute. Column ca. 1 mm; pollinia globose; caudicles indistinct or very short, viscidia involute, hornlike, rostellum triangular, with arm-like lobes, stigma transversely oblong, situated below the rostellum. Fruit oblong, 5–11 mm long.

June–July.

Terrestrial on grassy slopes at elevations of 2100–3600 m.

China (Qinghai, Sichuan, Yunnan).

CHINA: Qinghai, Tongde county, Hebei town, Naxiuma, 3550 m, 27.07.1990, Wu et al. 4978 (PE); Sichuan, Muli county, 3500 m, 16.06.1937, Yu C. T., 6324 (PE); South Szechuan between Yenyuan Hsien and Hunbea, 2900 m, 12.06.1914, Schneider C., 1465 (K); Yunnan, Lijiang County, near Jade Lake, 2800 m, 04.07.1996, Luo, Y. B., 59 (K); Lijiang, east of Yulong mountain, 2900, 05.08.1981, Beijing Hengduan Mountain Team,02693A (PE); Lichiang Range, 3048 m, 06.1906, Forrest G., 2466 (K); Zhongdian,3200 m, 01.06.1937, Yu T. T.,11475 (PE); Zhongdian county, Tuguanchun, 2870 m, 20.07.1997, Luo Y. B.,153 (9726) (K, PE); Hee-chan-men Pass, 14.06.1887, Delavay J. M., s.n (K).