 The petals are typically yellow, white, or orange, and the sepals are yellow, orange, green, or reddish brown.The petals and sepals may be marked sparsely or densely with red, reddish purple, purple, or reddish brown spots.The lip (ventral petal) may be very similar to the other two petals, as in "Lycaste aromatica" or "Lycaste brevispatha", or colored quite distinctively, as in several subspecies and varieties of "Lycaste macrophylla".