Robust epiphyte or terrestrial. Pseudobulbs cylindrical, to 30 cm long. Leaves 4?7, lanceolate, to 35 cm long, to 8 cm wide. Flowers several, males and females on different inflorescences; spring to summer. Male flowers to 14 cm long, fragrant, greenish with white labellum and black callus. Sepals and petals spreading. Labellum ovate, convex, entire, margins smooth, pointed at tip. Female flowers similar to males but slightly larger. Syn. C. ventricosum Bateman var. warscewiczii (Rchb. f.) P.H. Allen.

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Source: Jeanes, J. (2005). Orchidaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 5. Flowering plants. Monocotyledons. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press. (as Cycnoches warscewiczii)