Similar to Lepanthes pelorostele Luer & Hirtz but distinguished by the orange, ciliate sepals on the exterior margins of the lateral sepals (vs. white and glabrous), the larger petals (the longest (lower) lobe 2 mm, vs. 0.5 mm long) and the larger lip (1.0 vs. 0.3 mm long), that is placed at the column apex (vs. placed basally). Plant epiphytic, small, caespitose, suberect to 4.5–5.0 cm tall. Roots slender, flexuous, filiform, to 0.2 mm in diameter. Ramicauls slender 2.3–3.3 cm long, enclosed by 5–11 lepanthiform sheaths, to 3–7.5 mm long, microscopically ciliate along the margins, with a dilated ostia, subacuminate. Leaves green suffused on the abaxial surface with purple, subcoriaceous, the abaxial surface verrucose, conduplicate, narrowly ovateelliptic, 1.6–1.8 × 0.4 cm, the base cuneate contracted into a petiole ca. 1 mm long, apex tridentate with the tip of the central vein protruding abaxially within the sinus. Inflorescence racemose, congested, distichous, successively flowered, born at the base of the leaf, to 2.2 cm long; peduncle filiform, terete, to 1.3 cm long, from the apex of the ramicaul at the base of the leaf; rachis flexuous, to 9 mm long; floral bract 0.7–1.0 mm long, ovate, muricate; pedicel terete, verrucose, 1.5– 2.0 mm long. Ovary subclavate, shallowly winged, 1.0–1.3 mm long. Flowers resupinate, sepals and petals yellow-orange and orange striped along the veins, lip reddish-orange, column red-purple. Sepals similar, 3-veined, shortly connate at the base; dorsal sepal 6 × 3 mm, triangular-lanceolate, slightly concave, acute, glabrous; lateral sepals 6 × 2 mm, narrowly triangularlanceolate, acute, glabrous, ciliate along the exterior margins, translucent. Petals trilobed, lobes filiform, minutely pubescent, spreading 1 × 3 mm, lower lobe 2 mm long, mid-lobe and upper lobe 0.8–1.0 mm long, mid-lobe thinner. Lip connate to the column up to near the apex, blades oblong, the ends rounded, minutely pubescent, long pubescent in the surface of the apex, 0.8–1.0 mm long, apically loose and embracing the column, connectives broadly cuneate, appendix triangular, falcate, pubescent, reaching the blades. Column 3 mm long, slender, minutely pubescent, terete, clinandrium dorsal; rostellum and stigma apical. Anther cap not seen. Pollinia not seen.