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Flowers showy, pale to deep pink, or mauve lined and flushed with purple, the lip darker with white fimbriae; occasionally the flower uniformly pale mauve.
Inflorescence laxly 2–10-flowered; scape with c. 4 sheaths, almost as long as the internodes but not overlapping.
Leaves usually 3, 12–33 cm × 1–2.5 mm, linear, acuminate, grass-like, just starting to appear at flowering time.
Sepals 14–20 × 3–6 mm, lanceolate, acute or apiculate, the laterals oblique at base.
Perennating organs subterranean, tuberous, c. 4 × 2.5 cm, irregularly shaped.
Petals slightly shorter and more rounded than the sepals, 14–16 × 4–5 mm.
Spur 3–6 mm long, cylindrical, slightly curved.
Bracts 15–30 mm long, lanceolate, acuminate.
Slender terrestrial herb 17–46 cm tall.
Column slightly arched, 6–8 mm long.
Pedicel and ovary 8–15 mm long.
