Terrestrial herb 13–25 cm. high.. Root-tubers ellipsoid or ovoid, up to 1.5 cm. long and 1 cm. in diameter, woolly.. Stem slender, with a few scarious acute sheaths and 2 leaves at the base and 1–3 lanceolate sheaths above.. Leaves spreading, lanceolate, oblanceolate or elliptical, acuminate, 3–11.5 cm. long, 8–24 mm. broad, glabrous.. Inflorescence rather laxly 6–25-flowered, up to 11 cm. long; rhachis sparsely glandular hairy.. Bracts lanceolate, acute, shorter than the ovary.. Flowers white, mauve or rose-red, suberect; pedicel with ovary ± 7 mm. long.. Dorsal sepal ovate, very convex, ± 3.5 mm. long; laterals spreading, obliquely semi-obovate, obtuse, 4–5.5 mm. long.. Petals curved-lanceolate, ± 3 mm. long, attached to the column at the base.. Lip lanceolate in outline, 5-lobed, 5–7 mm. long; basal lobes short, rounded; side lobes half-way up, shortly triangular, acute.. Spur ± incurved, 5–7 mm. long.. Column short and broad; anther-canals linear, auricles stalked, swollen at end; rostellum truncate, cleft in centre, stigmas equalling the anther-canals.. Ovary glandular hairy.
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