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Plants erect, to 600 mm, slender to robust, pubescent except for flowers; tubers in clusters, cylindrical; leaves cauline, closely imbricate, pubescent, lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, acute to acuminate, to 60 x 20 mm. Inflorescences dense to lax spikes to 320 mm; bracts to 22 x 5 mm. Flowers numerous, c. 20 x 10 mm, sepals and petals brownish-green distally, lip mauve with a red-spotted yellow callus at the base; ovaries c. 20 mm long. Median sepal erect, shallowly concave, lanceolate, acute, forming a galea with the petals, to 5-7 x 3-4 mm; lateral sepals oblique, shielding the gynostemium, shallowly concave, acute, 6-7 x 3-4 mm. Petals oblique, obtuse, 4-6 x 2-3 mm. Lip spathulate, 7-10 mm long; limb saccate, 3 mm wide, 2 mm deep; blade dependent from junction with limb, triangular, 7-10 x 6-11 mm, trilobed with broadly diverging side lobes, all lobes obtuse; spur absent. Anther erect, c. 3 mm tall; rostellum c. 1 mm tall, 3-lobed, lateral lobes bearing the viscidia, central lobe reduced.
A ground orchid. It is a herb. It grows 15-75 cm tall. The roots are fleshy, woolly and tuber like. It has short downy hairs. There are many overlapping leaves. The leaves are 5 cm long by 1 cm wide. The flowering stalks are 4-35 cm long by 2-4 cm wide. There are many flowers densely arranged. The flowers are pink, mauve or purple.
Lip hypochile saccate, 2–3 mm long, with a knee-bend at the junction with the epichile, which hangs down at right angles to it; epichile 6–9 × 6–9 mm, cuneate from a narrow base, 3-lobed near the apex, the side lobes broadly rounded, the mid-lobe narrow, shorter than or equal to the side lobes.
Inflorescence 4–35 × 2.5–3.5 cm, densely or sometimes laxly many-flowered; ovary and pedicel 1.5–2.5 cm long, pubescent, purple; bracts leaf-like, up to 25 × 6 mm at base of inflorescence, pubescent.
Terrestrial herb, up to 370 mm tall. Leaves with numerous, short, pale hairs on surface. Lip pink with a few purple spots and a basal yellow callus. Flowers pink and brownish purple on reverse.
Sepals 5–8 × 2–4.5 mm, pubescent; dorsal sepal ovate, convex, forming a hood with the petals; lateral sepals spreading, obliquely ovate.
Leaves numerous, overlapping, up to 6 × 2 cm in the middle of the stem, lanceolate, acute or acuminate, densely pubescent.
Flowers mauve-pink to purple-pink, orange or yellow in the centre, the sepals often darker at the tips.
Petals adnate to column at the base, 4.5–7 × 2–4 mm, obliquely ovate, sparsely pubescent on outside.
Terrestrial herb 15–75 cm tall with fleshy, cylindrical, woolly, tuberous roots.
Pink, bluish or reddish-purple, or rarely white, flowers.
A slender herb 18-30 in. high
Column 2.5–4 mm long, stout.
