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Corolla violet, blue, mauve or pink with a greenish or yellowish spur or sometimes entirely yellow, (5)10–12(18) mm. long, externally sparsely covered with short gland-tipped hairs; superior lip broadly ovate, about three as long as the calyx lobes; inferior lip larger, broader than long, 3-lobed; palate raised, gibbous; spur cylindrical, obtuse, c. 1.5 times as long as the inferior lip.
Ovary more or less densley covered with short gland-tipped hairs; style short, indistinct; stigma inferior lip semi-circular, superior obsolete.
Calyx lobes subequal, ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 2–4 mm. long, densely covered with long gland-tipped hairs.
Seeds numerous, ovoid, 0.4–0.5 mm. long, conspicuously reticulate; testa cells more or less isodiametric.
Leaves usually numerous, rosulate, spathulate, usually long-petiolate, (1)2–4(5) cm. × up to 9 mm.
Capsule globose to braodly ovoid, 3–4 mm. long, densely covered with gland-tipped hairs.
Remarkable subterranean inverted Y-shaped traps for the capture of small organisms
Filaments falcate; anther-thecae subdistinct.
Flowers pedicellate, 1/4-1/3 in. long.
Traps about as numerous as the leaves.
Slender, erect herb of wet grassland
Stem short, erect.
Terrestrial herb.
