leaves 25- 40 cm long, equalling or slightly exceeding inflorescence; blade ligulate, 10 - 25 x 3.5 cm, oblong-lanceolate, laxly and minutely serrate, densely lepidote without; sparsely so within, glabrescent, apex rounded, mucronate, the mucro 2–3 mm long. inflorescence: peduncle erect, c; 15 cm long, 2.5 - 3 mm in diameter, densely white-floccose; fertile part up to 18 x 3 cm, simple, spicate, many-flowered; floccose. flowers sessile; spreading; epiphytic plant, to 35 cm tall when flowering; floral bracts 0.5 –1.3 cm, narrowly lanceolate-acuminate, entire, pink; sepals 9 mm long including 3 mm long apical spine, connate for about two-fifths of length, slightly asymmetric with one lateral wing, pale pink; petals 1.2 –1.5 x 0; 3 cm, ligulate, slightly cucullate, yellow, bearing 2 small fimbriate scales at base.Edited from : Kew Bull.. (protologue) .