Saprophyte, up to 23 cm. Stem thickly filiform to robust, simple or branched, 1-flowered or forked into the inflorescence. Leaves lanceolate to ovate, acute, 1-3½ mm. Bracts lanceolate to ovate, often keeled and carinate. Cincinni bifid, up to 11-flowered; branches up to 3 cm. Flowers pedicellate, white, sometimes with yellow limb, seldom bluish, about 8½ mm. Outer perianth lobes ovate or triangular, apiculate, about 1½ mm; margin fleshy. Inner lobes minute, fleshy, orbiculate. Perianth tube trigonous, 2½-5 mm. Connective truncate, rounded at the base, slightly 2-lobed at the apex into 2 very short, papillose crests. Basal spur absent. Style thick, bearing 3 subsessile, funnel-shaped to bowl-shaped stigmas. Style with stigmas as long as the tube. Ovary subglobose to truncate-globose, 3-5 mm. Flower wings various, linear, or elliptical, or rather broad, half-cuneate or quadrangular, running from the base of the limb to the middle or the base of the ovary. Capsule subglobose, dehiscing with large horizontal slits.
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