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An orchid. It is a herb that grows in the soil. It grows 30-45 cm tall. The leafy shoots are 70 cm long and have 2-3 leaves 30 cm long by 1 cm wide. The flowering shoots are 4-16 cm long with 5-40 flowers in a dense group. The flowers are orange. The tubers are narrowly oval and 1.5 cm long by 0.5 cm wide.
Spur pendent from above the middle of the galea, reaching to the base of the dorsal sepal 3.5–4.2 mm long, strongly clavate, to 2 mm in diameter at apex.
Fertile shoots 30–60 cm tall; cauline leaves imbricate or subimbricate, 4–8 cm long, lanceolate, acute, closely sheathing; basal leaves somewhat smaller.
Petals 2-lobed; anterior lobe 3.5–5 mm tall and 3–4 mm wide, the upper margins incurved; posterior lobe 3–4.5 mm tall and 0.5–0.7 mm wide.
Dorsal sepal 4.5–6.6 × 2.5–3.6 mm, ovate-elliptic, subacute, erect or slightly curved forwards, galea c. 1.5 mm deep.
Sterile shoot up to 70 cm tall; leaves 2–3, conduplicate, to 30 × 1 cm, oblanceolate-linear, acute.
Floral bracts 2–3 cm long, narrowly ovate, acute to acuminate, overtopping the flowers.
Lateral sepals 5.5–6.6 mm long, ovate, subacute, spreading sideways or upwards.
Inflorescence subdense to dense, 4–16 cm long, 5–40-flowered.
Terrestrial herb with separate sterile and fertile shoots.
Anther erect, with a massive connective.
Stigma massive, to 3 mm in diameter.
Lip pendent, 4–6 mm long, linear.
Rostellum less than 1 mm tall.
Flowers more or less orange.
Ovary 1–2 cm long.
