This small, warm to cool-growing orchid is found in Sumatra’s pine and montane forests at elevations of 750 to 1500 meters. It has cylindrical stems with 8 to 9 oblong-elliptic leaves that are smooth on top and hairy beneath, with black-haired leaf sheaths. Blooming in the fall, it produces a very short, successively single, several-flowered inflorescence emerging from the base of the leaf sheath opposite the leaf.