Polystachya malilaensis Schltr.

Small epiphytic herb, occasionally lithophytic. Pseudobulbs ovate to conical, 10-20 mm tall, green or reddish, 2-3-leaved. Leaves 4-12 cm long, lanceolate or oblong-oblanceolate, often purple-tinged and with a purple line around the margin. Inflorescence up to 15 cm long, fairly densely up to c. 20-flowered. Flowers yellowish to yellowish-brown, purple-tinged, becoming deep orange-brown with age; lip white with purple spots, strongly recurved, fleshy, 3-lobed.

DRC, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe.