Plants small, ± 10-15 cm., usually flowering before the leaves.. Leaves lanceolate, 7-15 cm. long, ± 2 cm. wide.. Inflorescence a raceme with 50-90 flowers; bracts narrowly lanceolate, ± 3 mm. long; spurs ± 1 mm. long, frequently with an additional spur or pit in the middle of the bract; pedicels 9-15 mm., spreading.. Perianth-segments free or united up to 2 mm., whitish with a purple abaxial band, 6-8 mm. long.. Filaments linear to triangular, free or united with the perianth-segments, free part 3-4 mm.. Ovary ovoid, 2-3 mm. long; style ± as long as the ovary.. Capsule subglobose, ± 6 mm. long and 7 mm. wide.
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