Robust epiphyte or epilith. Leaves 5?9, strap-like, to 60 cm long, to 6 cm wide, light green. Flowers 2?4, to 60 cm long; spring to summer. Sepals white or yellowish with green veins, dorsal lanceolate, arching forward, laterals shorter and wider than dorsal. Petals brownish, linear, narrower than dorsal sepal, pendulous, twisted. Labellum pinkish with darker veins, pouched, rim yellow.

Mexico, 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.