Plants 11–35 cm. Corms elongate, forked, 18–29 mm. Leaves not appressed to inflorescences at flowering; blade linear-lanceolate, 7–35 cm × 5–15 mm. Inflorescences green, 11.8–34 cm; floral bracts ovate-lanceolate to subulate, 3–8 mm. Flowers 2–7(–11), more than 1 cm apart, opening nearly simultaneously, magenta, pink, to white, fragrant; dorsal sepal strongly spreading to straight, obovate to oblanceolate, 14–25 × 5–8 mm, apex acuminate or acute; lateral sepals strongly spreading to straight, ovate to broadly lanceolate, slightly falcate, 15–22 × 8–10 mm, apex acuminate to apiculate; petals slightly falcate to straight, oblong to obpandurate, 11–20 × 5–8 mm, apex obtuse; lip 10–17 mm, middle lobe with dilated apex triangular, broadly rounded, 5–12 mm wide, apex acute or retuse; column 8.5–13 × 1.5–2 mm, distal end 5–8.5 mm wide; rostellum present; stigma typically flat against column surface. 2n = 120.
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