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Flowers drooping, not opening wide; sepals dull purple or brownish-purple; petals greenish or greenish-yellow; lip cream, purple round the margin and with yellow papillae.
Perennating organs subterranean, tuberous, c. 3 × 2 cm wide; roots short, 15 mm long, 2 mm in diameter, emerging from the tuber.
Pedicel and ovary 8–12 mm long, the ovary starting to swell before the flowers have withered.
Petals 6–8 × 2 mm, narrowly ovate, acute, the tips sometimes slightly recurved.
Inflorescence laxly 10–20-flowered; scape with several sheathing bracts.
Leaves 4–5, vestigial, purplish, up to 4 cm × 2.5 mm.
Bracts 2–5 mm long, lanceolate, acute or acuminate.
Slender terrestrial herb 25–60 cm tall.
Sepals 10–11 × 1 mm, linear, acute.
Column 4 mm long.
