Pseudostems 40--70 cm. Leaves aggregated at pseudostem apex; ligule 2-lobed, 0.6--1(--2) cm, densely silvery villous; petiole 2--5 cm, densely silvery villous; leaf blade lanceolate or narrowly so, 22--45 × 4--9 cm, adaxially glabrous, abaxially densely silvery villous, base cuneate or attenuate, apex shortly acuminate. Inflorescences arising from rhizomes, pale or with pale red apex, narrowly ovoid or ovoid, 4.5--5 × 3.4--4.5 cm; peduncle embedded in ground, 3--13 cm, slender; bracts red at apex, elliptic, 3.8--4.2 cm, apex mucronate; bracteoles 2.4--2.6 cm × 4--6 mm, silvery villous. Flowers white. Calyx 1.3--1.5 cm, silvery villous, apex unequally 3-toothed. Corolla tube 4.5--5 cm; lobes lanceolate, central one 2.8--3.1 cm × 8--10 mm, lateral ones 2.2--2.5 cm × 5--6 mm. Labellum fan-shaped; central lobe obovate, 2.5--3 × 2--2.5 cm, apex emarginate; lateral lobes narrower than central one, 2--2.4 × 1--1.2 cm. Filament ca. 2 mm; anther yellow, ca. 1.3 cm; connective appendage ca. 9 mm. Ovary white, silvery villous. Capsule ovoid, ca. 3 × 2 cm, 3-angled. Seeds pale, obovoid, ca. 3 mm. Fl. Jul.

Mixed forests; ca. 1400 m. SW Yunnan (Menghai Xian) [N Thailand].