Plants up to (10-) 20-35 cm tall. Stem solid, leafy mainly towards the base. Leaves spreading, unspotted, up to 15 x 1-2(-3) cm, broadest below the middle. Bracts narrow-lanceolate, the lower slightly exceeding the ovary. Flowers rose to pale purple. Sepals Oblong-lanceolate, up to 11x3 mm, the dorsal converging with petals forming a loose hood, the lateral ± reflexed, often with some purplish spots. Petals usually slightly shorter and narrower than sepals. Labellum obovate or rhomboidal, 8-11 mm long, 6-9 mm broad, papillose and very clearly marked with few darker purple dots and lines, entire or faintly 3-lobed, mid-lobe somewhat elongated. Spur cylindric, pointed, 7-10(-12) mm long, often slightly curved.