Medium sized epiphyte. Stems to 25 cm long, cylindrical. Leaf sub-cylindrical, to 25 cm long, to 8 mm wide, pendent, straight or curved, grooved, tip pointed. Inflorescences to 20 cm long. Flowers usually solitary, to 10 cm wide; autumn to winter. Sepals and petals linear-lanceolate, cream or greenish. Labellum obscurely 3-lobed, cordate to round, margins fringed, tip long-pointed, white, often greenish at tip.

Mexico, West Indies, C and S America.

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.