This species is most similar to Lepanthes ballatrix Luer, but it is easily distinguished by its petals retuse between the two triangular lobes, and by the lip with the elliptical, oblique blades with truncate apices and with two appendices in the sinus.Plant epiphytic, sympodial, caespitose herb up to 20 cm tall. Roots flexuous, filiform, ca. 1 mm in diameter. Ramicauls slender, suberect to horizontal, up to 19 cm long, enclosed by 10–13 lepanthiform sheaths. Leaf green with veins suffused with purple abaxially, suberect, lanceolate, thinly coriaceous, rugose between veins on the abaxial surface, the apex attenuate and tridentate, 8–9 cm × 2.2–2.4 cm, the rounded base contracted into a petiole ca. 6 mm long. Inflorescence a congested, successively flowered, distichous raceme shorter than the leaf, borne on the abaxial surface of the leaf, up to 3.8 cm long; peduncle filiform, terete, up to 2.7 cm; floral bracts ca. 1.4 mm long. Ovary costate, ca. 2 mm long. Flowers with yellow to saffron sepals, the lateral sepals suffused with red near the interior margin, the petals orange with red margins, the lip and column purple. Dorsal sepal triangular, acute, 3-veined, connate at the base to the lateral sepals for ca. 1.5 mm, 3 × 6 mm. Lateral sepals ovate, oblique, acute, shortly acuminate, 2-veined, abaxially carinate along the mid vein, connate for 3.8 mm, 2.9 × 6.2 mm. Petals puberulent, transversely bilobed, retuse between the two lobes, 4.2 × 1.3 mm, 1-veined, the upper lobe ovate to triangular, oblique, obtuse; the lower lobe triangular, with one external basal undulation, subfalcate, oblique, subacute. Lip bilaminate, pubescent, blades touching above the column, elliptical, oblique, convex with recurved margins, the apices truncate, 1.4–1.5 × 0.8–0.9 mm, the connectives cuneate, the body semicircular, concave, connate at the base of the column, with two shortly oblong, long pubescent appendices, located at the sinus just below the apex of the column on both sides of the rostellum and viscidium. Column adpressed to the body of the lip, terete, ca. 1.5 mm long; anther apical, stigma ventral, bilobed, filling the lip body cavity. Pollinia2, pyriform, attached to a detachable viscidium, ca. 0.5 mm long. Anther cap subquadrate, cucullate, 0.4 mm long.