Saprophyte, 7½-15 cm. Stem simple, beset with acute or acuminate, 1-nerved, often keeled, 2-5 mm long, scale-like leaves. Bracts linear-lanceolate, acute, 1-nerved, about 4 mm. Pedicels up to 5 mm. Flowers shortly pedicellate, in contracted 3-8-flowered bifid or, sometimes, pseudo-umbellate cymes, very narrowly 3-winged to 3-costate, 7-9 mm. Outer perianth lobes triangular, acute, about 2 mm, in the upper part provided with small, rounded, crenate lateral lobes. Inner ones broadly obovate, rounded, papillose at the margin, ½ mm. Perianth tube cylindrical, about 3 mm. Connective oblong, acute at the base, crowned by 2 divergent, acute crests. Style thick-filiform, branching at the apex into 3 very short branches, each bearing a funnel-shaped stigma with 2 small, apical points. Style with stigmas about 3 mm. Ovary ellipsoid, truncate, about 2½ mm.
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