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Terrestrial herb, moderately robust, geophyte, 0.3-0.6 m high; root tubers present. Sterile shoots: basal sheaths 1 or 2, hyaline; leaves 3 or 4, often petiolate, erect, conduplicate. Fertile shoots: cauline leaves 8-16, subimbricate, basal sheaths hyaline, grading into reddish floral bracts. Inflorescence a dense, cylindrical raceme; flowers 20-50, imbricate, resupinate, pink to red, edge of dorsal sepal lighter or white, petals cream-coloured, pink at base, brownish at apex. Sepals 10-12 mm long, median sepal galeate, lateral sepals spreading; spur cylindrical, ascending, straight, curved downwards, 7-17 mm long, apex swollen. Petals obliquely narrowly oblong. Lip linear, oblanceolate, pendent, 7 mm long. Flowering time Dec.-Mar.
Terrestrial herb, up to 0.6 m tall. Inflorescence imbricate with 20-30 flowers. Spur, particularly in old flowers, ascending. Lip pendent, oblanceolate. Flowers pink to red.
Fertile shoots 8–16-leaved; leaves cauline, subimbricate, grading into the floral bracts, mostly sheathing; blades 3–10 cm long, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate.
Lip pendent, 6–7 mm long, narrowly oblanceolate to oblanceolate, rarely narrowly elliptic, apical margins sometimes faintly serrate.
Petals 5.5–8 mm long, obliquely narrowly oblong, somewhat variable in shape, apex curved over the rostellum, occasionally serrate.
Sterile shoots 3–4-leaved; leaves erect, conduplicate, often petiolate, 20–30 cm long, narrowly elliptic to linear, acute.
Spur slender, 7–17 mm long, cylindrical from a conical base, ascending, apex somewhat swollen, obtuse.
Dorsal sepal galeate; galea erect, 7–10 mm long, 4–5 mm wide and 3.5–4.5 mm deep, oblong, acute.
Terrestrial herb with separate fertile and sterile shoots; perennating by testicular tubers.
Lateral sepals 7–10 mm long, oblong, obtuse to acute, apiculi up to 1.5 mm long.
Inflorescence dense, 10–15(20) cm long, 15–30-flowered.
Flowers facing down, pink to red, lip yellow to pink.
Rostellum 2–2.5 mm tall, lateral lobes parallel.
Anther 2–3 mm long, cells ovate.
Ovary erect, 1–1.5 cm long.
Stigma shortly stipitate.
