Plants to 18 cm (excluding inflorescence). Leaves: blade 8–15 × 1–2.5 cm. Inflorescences 1–2, to 12 cm; bracts 3–10 mm. Flowers cream to pale orange with red-brown to red-purple spots; sepals 6–120 × 3–6 mm, apex acute; petals 6–120 × 3–4 mm, apex acute; lip white to pale yellow with yellow patch near callus, 7–10 × 6–8 mm, lateral lobes nearly circular, middle lobe nearly linear, apex acute and strongly reflexed; callus of 3 shallow keels; column white, often with 2 red-brown streaks, 8 mm. Capsules 15–20 mm.

Flowering Oct--Dec. Epiphytic in shaded sites on small branches and twigs; 0--10[--500] m; Fla.; West Indies; n South America.