Perennial, geophytic herb, procumbent, 150-388 mm long. Leaves triangular, 36-90 x 4-16 mm, base trullate to truncate, apex acute, margins crisped, harshly hairy; petioles 5.5 mm long. Inflorescences solitary, rarely paired, globose, erect, 25-50 mm in diam.; 7-40-flowered; peduncle 20-85 mm long. Corolla mauve, reflexed; lobes 5.3-7.5 x 2.5-4.5 mm; staminal column 2-3 mm, stipitate by 0.7-1.0 mm long. Corona yellow or white tinted purple, slipper-shaped, 2 mm high, 3-7 mm wide, upper proximal edge shortly dentate, extended over margin of style-stigma-head, upper margin forming acuminate point, overtopping style-stigma-head; keel bow-like. Anther bilobed or emarginate, incumbent over style-stigma-head. Flowering time Sept.-Apr. Follicle fusiform, pedicel twisted, 72-111 mm long, apex long beaked.
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