Herbaceous saprophytic perennial; stems 40-50 cm tall, pale pink to rose to tan, leafless except for a few widely spaced bracts; inflorescence a raceme with 10-20 rose-tan to whitish flowers; sepals and petals pale rose-tan with light veining, free and spreading, revolute with outer third rolled back 360 degrees or more; dorsal sepal lanceolate, 2.2 cm long, 0.8 cm wide; lateral sepals elliptic lanceolate, oblique, 2.0 cm long, 0.8 cm wide; petals elliptic to obovate, slightly falcate, 0.6 cm long, 1.8 cm wide; lip broadly elliptic, deeply three-lobed, 1.5 cm long, 1.2 cm wide, white to pale rose-tan, with purple veining on lateral lobes and 5 or 7 raised purple ridges running the entire length of the central lobe; column narrow, curved, 1.5 cm high, white with purple shading at the base; anther cap yellow, minute wings near the apex; pollinia yellow, 8 in 4 pairs; capsules pendant, ellipsoidal, 2.0 cm long, 0.5 cm wide. Flowers May through August.