Medium sized epiphyte. Pseudobulbs cylindrical to spindle shaped, to 50 cm long, 4-angled, clustered. Leaves 3?5, ovate to lanceolate, to 16 cm long, to 2.5 cm wide. Flowers 10-50, to 5 cm wide, fragrant, pale yellow. Sepals oblong. Petals almost round, wider than sepals. Labellum entire, almost round, densely hairy, margins fringed, orange with darker centre; spring.

India, Nepal and Burma.

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.