Burnettia cuneata

Flowering plant 5–13 cm tall. Flowering stem slender to thick and fleshy; sheathing bracts oblong, 7–20 mm long, purplish. Flowers 2–5, rarely solitary, short-lived (opening for only 1 or 2 days), purplish-brown or reddish externally, white on inner surface of segments, often striped with conspicuous dark veins; pedicel (excluding ovary) 5–13 mm long; dorsal sepal broadly oblanceolate, curved and slightly hooded, 8–13 mm long, 2–4 mm wide; lateral sepals and petals similar shape and size, spreading or obliquely deflexed. Labellum sessile, broadly obovate, 4–7 mm long, whitish with a few dark reel veins; lateral lobes embracing column, mid-lobe slightly recurved; lamina with 2 longitudinal ridges breaking into pale, irregular calli towards apex. Flowers Sep.–Nov.