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Fertile shoot robust, 15–30 cm tall; cauline leaves imbricate, 4.5–5.5 cm long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, sheathing with the apical third free; basal leaves reduced to sheaths 2–3 cm long.
Dorsal sepal spathulate; claw 3 mm long and 3 mm wide, sometimes difficult to distinguish from the blade; blade 10–13 mm in diameter, round, obtuse, shallowly galeate, margin incurved.
Sterile shoot to c. 4 cm tall; leaves up to 5, conduplicate, 7–12 cm long and up to 12 mm wide, linear-lanceolate, erect, acute.
Spur pendent from just below the middle of the blade, reaching to the base of the dorsal sepal, 4–6 mm long, clavate, obtuse.
Lateral sepals 9–13 mm long, oblong, obtuse to subacute, spreading sideways and upwards.
Floral bracts c. 3 cm long, ovate, acute to subacuminate, overtopping the flowers.
Terrestrial herb with separate fertile and sterile shoots.
Flowers magenta, the galea paler with darker spots.
An orchid. There are 7-15 flowers in a dens group.
Inflorescence dense, 6–10 cm long, 7–15-flowered.
Stigma vertical, sessile, tripulvinate.
Lip pendent, 10–11 mm long, linear.
Anther erect, 4–5 mm long.
Ovary c. 1.5 cm long.
