Tuber pyriform, c. 20 x 10 mm. Stem 55-125 mm tall, simple, erect, pilose with coarse white somewhat curled hairs. Leaves in 4 or 5 pairs, sharply ascending, lowermost up to 25 x 6 mm, lanceolate, longer than the internodes, becoming linear upwards and diminishing slightly in length, apex acute, base more or less truncate and subhastate, almost sessile, upper surface sparsely pilose, lower surface glabrous except on the midrib and principal veins, margins somewhat revolute. Flowers crowded in a terminal capitate umbel. Pedicels 2-4 mm long, pilose. Calyx segments c. 2.5 x 1.5 mm, lanceolate, glabrous inside, pilose outside. Corolla tube c. 0.5 mm long, lobes c. 2.75 x 1.75 mm, ovate, erect, glabrous inside, pilose on the upper half outside, canary-yellow. Corona lobes c. 2 x 1.5 mm, about equalling the gynostegium, roughly rhomboid-triangular in outline, apex obtuse or somewhat emarginate, with a linear-lanceolate appendage on the inner face, tip of appendage entire or emarginate, slightly overtopping the corona lobe, but inflexed towards the gynostegium then sharply reflexed at the level of the gynostegial head and almost touching the tip of the corona lobe, both canary-yellow. Anther appendage c. 0.5 x 0.75 mm, suborbicular, inflexed over the rim of the gynostegial head; corpusculum c. 0.2 mm long; pollinia 0.5 mm long, bean-shaped, attachment subterminal. Gynostegium 1.5 mm tall, the head depressed-truncate, c. 1 mm in diam. Fruit unknown.
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