Overview
Terrestrials arising from tubers. Stems erect, leafy toward the base. Leaves linear-lanceolate, grass-like, acuminate. Inflorescences erect pedunculate spicate racemes, the floral bract conspicuous, colored. Flowers with a tubular base, brown to purple. Sepals and petals free. Lip three-lobed, the lateral lobes erect-incurved, the disc usually villose, the midlobe large and deflexed, the callus basal, usually of two short parallel keels. Column club-shaped with an elongate awl-like rostellum; pollinia 2, granular, on separate caudicles and a small common viscidium.