Terrestrial herbs. Stems ascending from short creeping base, 5-12 cm tall. Leaves 4-6, pale green, ovate or rhombic-ovate, 4-6 cm long, 1.8-2.3 cm wide, wavy at margins; petiole to 2 cm long, ciliate at margins (unique in Taiwan species of Zeuxine). Peduncle to 15 cm long, hairy, with 2-3 bract-like hairy sheaths; rachis 5-10 cm long, 10-35-flowered; floral bract hairy; ovary sparsely hairy. Sepals dark green, sparsely hairy at lower half, 3.5-4 mm long, dorsal one ovate, lateral ones obliquely ovate, not spreading; petals dimidiate obovate, 4 mm long; lip white, tripartite, T-shaped, 3-3.5 mm long when flattened, hypochile saccate, with 2 horn-like papillae inside, mesochile short, epichile dilated, 2-lobed, 4-4.5 mm across when flattened, lobules rectangular; column 1.7-2.0 mm tall, appendages obscure; anther ovate-lanceolate, ca. 1.7 mm long; stigma 2, on lateral side of column; rostellum inclined, arms slender, straight; tegula oblong; viscidium large, elliptic.

NANTOU: Tzitzi, Leou 4157; Fonghuang. Leou 3954; Reichu, Leou 3736. KAOHSIUNG: Shanpin, Leou 4002; Wanshan, Su 8944.

The Ryukyus. Taiwan, in the center and south below 1,200 m.