Delicate saprophyte, 2-6 cm. Stem simple or branched, bearing 1-2 flowers, beset with lanceolate, acute, scale-like, ½-1½ mm long leaves. Below each flower 1 or 2 lanceolate, 1-veined, acute bracts, about 1½ mm. Flowers pure white with yellow limb, prominently 3-winged, 3-7 mm. Outer perianth lobes triangular, subobtuse, with swollen margin, about 1 mm. Inner ones orbiculate, minute. Perianth tube cylindrical-trigonous to conical-trigonous, about 2½ mm. Connective quadrangular, with a broad, obtuse, basal hanging spur and crowned by 2 short, thick, straight, obtuse, divergent crests. Style thick-filiform, bearing 3 sessile, slightly curved, bilabiate, funnel-shaped stigmas. Ovary subglobose, about 2 mm. Flower wings half elliptical to half-quadrangular, pure white, about 4½ by 1½ mm. Capsule subglobose, dehiscing with transverse slits. Seeds scobiform.
Collected on the SW. slope of Mt Lamongan on coarse, volcanic sandy soil in brushwood, ca 600 m alt. It is the only species of the family hitherto reported from East Java.
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