Saprophyte, 4½-12cm. Stem simple, thick, beset with many lanceolate, acute, in the lower part imbricate, 3-6 mm long, scale-like leaves and bearing 2-5 subsessile flowers at the apex. Bracts broad-lanceolate to ovate, acute, 3-6 mm. Flowers 6-costate, white, about 8½ mm. Outer perianth lobes broadly triangular, with swollen margin, about 8½ mm. Inner ones fleshy, obtuse to rounded, papillose, almost 1 mm. Perianth tube cylindrical, about 2 mm. Connective oblong, acute at the base crowned by 2 divergent, obtuse crests. Style thick-filiform, bearing 3 sessile, obconical stigmas. Ovary large, broadly ellipsoid to subglobose, 4-5 mm.
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