Botany
Kula is a terrestial orchid reaching a height of 70 cm, with slightly fleshy underground roots. Leaves are from 2 to 4, large and variable in size, elliptic-oblong to lanceolate, up to 35 cm long and 7cm wide, plicate, with a pointed tip. Scapes are 20 to 50 cm high, leafless, growing from the base of the leaf shoot. Racemes are nodding, 3 cm long when in flower and longer when in fruit. Flowers are pale-pink to purplish, about 1 cm long and numerous. Lip is retuse or bilobed at the apex. Capsule is nodding, about 3.5 cm long.

Distribution
- At sea level up to 300-meters altitude, especially in thickets and open places.
- Occurs in Bornea, Taiwan, and Hongkong.

Constituents
Rhizomes reported to contain about 14% of a water-soluble adhesive.

Properties
Considered emollient.

Parts utilized
Tuberous roots.

Uses
Folkloric
Liniment made from the bulb and rice water used in phlegmatic tumors and abscesses.
In poultice form, used as emollient.
Others
Glue: Tubrous roots contain a mucilage which is used as glue, used in cementing together parts of mandolins, guitars and other musical instruments.

Availability
Cultivated.