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Sepals green, flushed with purple; petals yellow-green, purple-veined inside; lip mainly purple with 2 yellow calli, spur yellow-green, purple-tipped.
Perennating organs subterranean, tuberous, c. 12 mm high, 15 mm long, onion-shaped, forming a short chain.
Inflorescence rather laxly up to about 12-flowered; scape with 3 scarious bracts, the lowest 2 sheathing.
Sepals 5–6.5 × 1.5–3 mm, oblanceolate, apiculate, the dorsal erect, the laterals spreading or reflexed.
Petals 4.6–7 × 3.6–4.3 mm, broadly ovate or suborbicular, apiculate.
Slender terrestrial herb 10–40 cm tall, flowering when leafless.
Withered remnants of previous year’s leaves may be present.
Leaves several, 4–5 × 1 cm, ligulate.
Bracts scarious, 3–7 mm long.
Pedicel and ovary 10 mm long.
Column 3 mm long.
