识别要点：卧龙盆距兰在形态上与中华盆距兰相似，但本种有较短的分枝茎，总状花序有较少的花和较大的花；花瓣和萼片有黑紫色的条纹，背面具隆起的中脉等特征可以和中华盆距兰明显区分。
形态特征：Epiphytic herbs, prostrate, 4.0–9.0 cm tall, leafy. Roots vermiform, slender, up to 8.0 cm long. Stems short branched, green, glabrous, up to 9.0 cm long, covered with sheathing leaf bases; sheaths with purplish-red spots; internodes of stems 3.2–4.0 mm long. Leaves alternate, distichous, elliptic or oblong, plump, both surfaces green with few purplish red spots, 1.1–1.5 × 0.5–0.8 cm, margin smooth, apex acute and leathery. Inflorescence in racemes with 1 or 2 flowers, ca. 2.8 cm long; Peduncle 4.0–7.0 mm long. Flowers 1.2 × 1.3 cm, light yellowish green, with black-purple stripes on petals and sepals, elevated on abaxial midrib; pedicel and ovary 6.0–8.3 mm long, green at the base and blackish green toward the apex; dorsal sepal elliptic-oblong, 6.8–8.9 × 4.2–5.8 mm, with 3 veins, only the midvein reaching the apex; lateral sepals elliptic-oblong, slightly pointed at the apex, 6.2–8.6 × 4.2–5.8 mm, with 1 vein; petals obovate, 7.1–8.5 × 4.5–6.0 mm, with 3 veins, none reaching the apex; labellum 7.0–9.8 × 6.2–7.7 mm; hypochile attached to base of column wing, subcupular, laterally compressed, ca. 3.7 × 5.8 mm, opening cordate, base saccate, sac with lavender patches inside, long papillate hairs near epichile side, outside of sac with conspicuous purplish-red stripes; epichile reniform, apically concave, densely covered with long papillate hairs, 4.5–5.2 × 10.0–12.3 mm, with purplish-red spots and a yellow-green center; column cylindrical, ca. 3.0 mm; anther cap subhemispheric, with two chambers, 1.2 × 1.4 mm, hanging from both ends of the stipe; pollinia 2, 0.7 × 0.6 mm, yellow, full and nearly spherical, with a depression in the center; stigma deeply sunken, inverted V-shaped, 1.2 mm long, yellow, apically forked, forked in a subtriangular outline. Capsule long ellipsoid, 14–18 mm long, green with sparse purplish-red spots, prominently 3-ridged.
