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An ground orchid. It is a herb that grows 40-90 cm tall. It has fleshy, woolly cylinder shaped roots. There are several overlapping leaves. These are 10 cm long by 1.5 cm wide. They are sword shaped and taper to the tip. The flowering stalk is 12-25 cm long by 2-4 cm wide. It has many flowers in a dense arrangement. The flowers are red to purple.
Lip 11–15 mm long; hypochile boat-shaped, 2–3 mm long; epichile 8–13 × 6.6–14.4, horizontal, upcurved at apex, 3-lobed with the mid-lobe very small and tooth-like, the lateral lobes folded down.
Terrestrial herb, up to 1 m high. Lip 2-lobed at apex or with 2 large, rounded side lobes and a central tooth. Keel white or pinkish purple, not spotted. Flowers rose-pink or purple.
Inflorescence 12–25 × 2.5–4.5 cm, usually densely many-flowered; ovary and pedicel up to 18 mm long; bracts leaf-like, up to 3 cm long.
Sepals ovate or elliptic; dorsal sepal 5.5–8.3 × 2–4.6 mm; lateral sepals (5)6–9 × 3.5–5.5 mm, rather oblique.
Leaves numerous, overlapping, up to 10 × 1.5 cm, lanceolate, acuminate, the largest in the middle of the stem.
Petals 6–8.4 × 3.7–8 mm, semi-orbicular to obliquely orbicular, standing forwards.
Terrestrial herb 36–90 cm tall with fleshy, woolly, cylindrical roots.
A spike of purple, mauve or violet flowers.
Numerous very finely pointed leaves
Flowers mauve-purple to purple.
Column stout, c. 2 mm long.
A herb 1-31/2 ft. high
