Plants with well-developed aerial stem, mostly 150-350 mm high, suberect, usually branched. Leaves lanceolate, 7-15(-20) mm wide, usually reaching to ± middle or top of spike, margins not thickened. Spike 6-to 12-flowered; bracts 15-25 mm long. Flowers violet, lower lateral tepals with white or pale yellow markings edged violet; perianth tube mostly 15-18(-25) mm long; dorsal tepal 25-35 mm long, lower tepals joined to upper laterals 3-5 mm and to one another for ± 2.5 mm, forming a lip, lower 15-18 mm long. Filaments 13-16 mm long; anthers 5-7 mm long.