Herbs, terrestrial. Rhizome ascending, elongate, several noded, fleshy; roots arising from rhizome nodes, elongate, fleshy, pubescent. Stem glabrous, leafy. Leaves subrosulate or scattered along stem, narrowly ovate to elliptic, usually asymmetric, membranous to slightly fleshy, with a petiole-like base dilating into tubular amplexicaul sheath. Inflorescence pubescent, with a few scattered sheathing sterile bracts and several to many flowers in a terminal raceme. Flowers not resupinate; ovary not (or rarely slightly) twisted, glabrous or pubescent. Sepals free, similar, outer surface glabrous or pubescent; lateral sepals embracing base of lip. Petals connivent with dorsal sepal and forming inverted hood, usually narrower than sepals, membranous; lip adnate to margin of column, 2-partite or with a short mesochile and 3-partite; hypochile concave, saccate or cupular, containing 1 to several papillose, warty or lamellate calli on either side of midvein; mesochile (when present) with involute margin; epichile entire and tapering or 2-lobed. Column short, with thin to fleshy winglike appendages at apical margin; anther ovoid, 2-locular; pollinia 4, in 2 pairs, clavate, granular-farinaceous, basally attenuate into short caudicles, attached to solitary ovate viscidium; rostellum erect, relatively long, bifid; stigma lobes separate and placed at apical corners of column. Capsule erect, fusiform.

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Column short, nearly as broad as long, with 2 parallel wing-like keels on the front; anther short; rostellum short and acute, or elongate, or linear-spathulate and obtuse; stigmas 2, convex, occasionally close together.

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Lip concave, shallow, narrowed towards apex, basal part containing various glands and papillae

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Flowers usually non-resupinate, less than 1 cm. long

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Dorsal sepal and petals forming a hood; lateral sepals enclosing the saccate base of lip

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Leaves variously arranged along stem, frequently with a long petiole arising from the persistent sheathing base, lanceolate, glabrous, soft, thin, varying shades of green

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Inflorescence many-flowered

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Terrestrial herbs up to 60 cm. high when flowering, not very rigid, with very slender creeping rhizomatous rootstock, often decumbent at base

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