Plants stout, 2-4 m. tall, the stem somewhat spiral; leaves closely sheathing, oblong-elliptic, narrowly acuminate, broadly cuneate at the base, sessile or sub-sessile, 18-40 cm. long, 5-12 cm. broad, densely ferruginous-sericeous beneath, minutely scabrid above, the sheathes rather irregularly ferruginous-pilosulose; inflorescence broadly ovoid to rather narrowly cylindrical-fusiform, sessile and closely set amongst the upper somewhat reduced leaves; bracts deep red or pink throughout, with conspicuous acute reflexed apical appendages, ovate-lanceolate, 3-7 cm. long, minutely scabridulous; calyx about 0.8 cm. long, broadly 3-dentate; ovary 0.4 cm. long; corolla 3.0-5.0 cm. long, deep pink, the lobes obovate-oblong; labellum obovate-oblong, about equalling the corolla, pink; stamen 3 cm. long.
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