Medium sized epiphyte. Pseudobulbs club-shaped, to 15 cm long, compressed, ridged, sheathed with papery bracts. Leaves oblong, to 20 cm long, to 5.5 cm wide. Flowers to 17.5 cm wide, fragrant, yellowish-green, labellum white to cream with green markings; summer. Sepals oblong to elliptic. Petals elliptic, similar to sepals. Labellum obscurely 3-lobed, almost round, tubular at base, margins deeply fringed. Syn. Brassavola digbyana Lindl.

Mexico and C 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.