Because of its pending habit it should be mounted on a vegetable fiber plaque or on a piece of bark and kept sheltered form straight sunlight in a cool, humid and well ventilated place.

The stems are thin, flexible and pending, formed by a simple but occasionally bifurcating elongated rhizome, and tiny pseudobulbs.

The pseudobulbs are spaced at one-centimeter intervals and have only one apical flat, but folded at the base, elliptical lanceolated and comparatively large leaf.

The labellum is strong yellow margined of bright purple; at the base it is fused to the column base forming a narrow spur shaped nectary; it is internally slightly pubescent and has a thick callus that splits in five digitate keels on the disk; the central lobe is partially saccate and has two longer fringes at the apex.

The anther, contrasting to the flower, is very bright purple, apical, bearing six pollinia, four small and two large, hold by a caudicle similar to the ones of Leptotes.

[3] The Swedish-Brazilian botanist Johan Albert Constantin Löfgren lived many years in Brazil where he was studying the flora of Minas Gerais State, painting watercolors of plants and was a director of Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden.

[5] In 1915 the professor Oakes Ames, botanist responsible for the herbarium of Harvard University, and his wife Blanche were traveling in Brazil and met Loefgren.