Plant small, caespitose, up to 10.5 cm. tall. Roots 
fibrous, numerous, relatively stout, apparently thicker 
than the stems. Stems slender, up to 7 cm. high, en- 
tirely concealed by several close, tubular, hispid sheaths 
which terminate in an ovate marginate hispid mouth. 
Leaves solitary and erect at the apex of the stem, ellip- 
tic to oblong-elliptic, more or less acute with a minutely 
tridenticulate apex, cuneate-narrowed to a short petiole, 
green above and more or less purple beneath, up to 3.5 
em. long including the petiole and 1.38 em. wide, some- 
times slightly oblique. Inflorescences one to seven, axil- 
lary, suberect to diffuse, generally distinctly surpassing 
the leaf in maturity, loosely several- (up to 12-) flowered ; 
pedicels spreading-ascending, much surpassing the sub- 
tending infundibuliform bract which is just below the 
emergence of the pedicel. Flowers very small, membrana- 
ceous, with widely spreading sepals. Dorsal sepal elliptic- 
ovate with caudate-acuminate recurved apex, cucullate, 
3-nerved, the mid-nerve being carinate without, about 6 
mm. long and 2 mm. wide when expanded. Lateral sepals 
narrowly triangular-lanceolate, gradually long-acumi- 
nate, gently recurved above, shortly connate at the base, 
1-nerved, conspicuously long-papillose and unicarinate 
without, about 7 mm. long in natural position and 1.3 
mm. wide near the base. Petals much smaller than the 
sepals, transversely bilobed, about 0.3 mm. long and 3.1 
mm. wide; posterior lobe lanceolate-linear, obtuse or sub- 
acute; anterior lobe triangular-linear, slightly smaller 
than the posterior lobe. Lip very small, adnate to the 
column above the middle, 3-lobed, about 1.5 mm. long 
and 2.2 mm. wide near the base in natural position; 
lateral lobes dolabriform with a truncate and thickened 
outer margin and a slender incurved apex; mid-lobe 
minute, pubescent. Column about 1.8 mm. high. 
This species is outwardly similar to Lepanthes alticola 
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