这种短叶建兰叶片均为4片,长者达35厘米,短者仅15厘米,宽1.5～2厘米,主脉两侧各有一条不太明亮的叶脉。叶质厚,半革质,叶面平展,少中折,中断宽,先端钝尖。叶色青绿,叶态多为斜立,略有翻卷。花期1年两次,分别为农历3月至4月上旬和9月至10月上旬。一葶开花23朵,花萼5片,紫红色镶金边,中萼片端正上翘,花瓣斜上张开,侧萼片微落肩,形同蜜蜂的头和两翼。 The short leaves are four blue leaves, the elderly up to 35 cm, the short is only 15 cm wide and 1.5 to 2 cm, each side of the main vein has a less bright veins. Leaf thick, semi-leathery, foliar flat, few fold, interrupt wide, apex blunt tip. Green leaves, leaves mostly oblique stand, slightly curled. Flowering once or twice a year, respectively, from March to early April and early September to early October. A bloom flowering 23, 5 calyx, purple inlaid, sepals in the upturned, petals oblique open, side sepals slightly shoulder, shaped with the bees head and wings.