Terrestrial herb, slender geophyte, 0.04-0.08 m high; with ovoid root tubers. Leaves 1, cauline, narrowly lanceolate, acute up to 70 x 8 mm. Inflorescence lax. Flowers 1-6, secund, white to mauve, central parts darker. Sepals unequal; median sepal 10-13 mm long; lateral sepals oblique, narrowly elliptical 13-18 mm long; spur slender 25-40 mm long, decurved. Petals oblanceolate to narrowly obovate, 10-14 mm long. Lip very small. Flowering time Jan.-Mar.
Herb, up to 0.5 m high. Leaves 1(-3), narrowly lanceolate, < 10 mm wide. Flowers: 1-3(-5) in lax spike, petals not apically expanded, margins not crenulate, not spreading; slender spur 25-40 mm long, somewhat decurved; petals mauve to almost white; Feb.-Apr.