Burmannia championii Thwaites

Saprophyte, 2-18 cm. Rhizome tuberous or elongate, covered with hair-like roots, producing small, adventitious tubers. Stem simple, beset with lanceolate, acute, appressed, scale-like, 1½-4 mm long leaves. Bracts lanceolate, acute, about 3 mm. Flowers subsessile in a capitate inflorescence at the top of the stem, 3-costate, white, 5-12 mm. Outer perianth lobes triangular, acute, with involute margin in the upper part, 1-2½ mm. Inner ones spathulate, rounded, slightly papillose at the margin, about ¾ mm. Connective broadly oblong, obtuse at the base, crowned by 2 indistinct, divergent, obtuse crests and provided with a median small point at the apex, usually directed inwards and then hardly perceptible. Style thick-filiform, bearing 3 subsessile funnel-shaped stigmas; style with stigmas 3 mm. Ovary ellipsoid to obovoid, 2-3 mm.

A species with a large ecological amplitude, occurring in humus of moist forests and also in parks, plantations, bamboo bush, on rocks in streams.