Habit: terrestrial herbs

Rhizome: retrose or transverse or creeping or ascending, noded, with fleshy roots

Leaf: characteristics: 1, 2, several to many, petiolate

Leaf: position: basal

Inflorescence: type: raceme

Inflorescence: position: terminal or subterminal

Sepal: free or similar

Petal: shorter or smaller than sepals, free

Labellum: not lobed

Stigma: convex, 1

Pollinia: number: 4

Pollinia: other characteristics: granular-farinaceous