Saprophyte, 5-13 cm. Stem simple or branched, beset with scale-like, ovate to lanceolate, 1-nerved, sometimes distichous, up to 5 mm long leaves and bearing 1 flower or branching into a bifid, up to 9-flowered cyme. Flowers shortly pedicellate, 6-costate, white or somewhat purplish, 9-13 mm. Limb fleshy. Outer perianth lobes triangular, obtuse, with involute, crenatemargin, 1½-2 mm. Inner ones ovate to orbicular, ¼-1½ mm. Perianth tube cylindrical-trigonous, 2½-5 mm. Connective obtri-angular, crowned by 2 divergent, papillose crests. Style thick-filiform, branching into 3 short branches, each bearing a somewhat funnel-shaped stigma with a broad, rotundate, membranous, hanging appendage. Style with stigmas 4-4½ mm. Ovary ellipsoid, 3-6 mm. Seeds ovoid, brown. Flower wings reduced to narrow, linear ribs.
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