Plant stemless. Leaves about 15, suberect, 4-6 dm. long, exceeding the inflorescence; sheaths large, ovate or elliptic, forming a slender pseudobulb, densely brown-lepidote, often finely purple-striped; blades ligulate, acumi-nate, 2-3 cm. wide, concolorous, pale-lepidote, green. Scape erect, slender. Scape-bracts densely imbricate, foliaceous. Inflorescence densely bipinnate, cylindric, 11-13 cm. long, 4 cm. thick. Primary bracts suberect to spreading, broadly ovate, inflated, bright red, punctulate-lepidote, thin, the lower ones exceeding the flowers and with long acuminate blades. Branches densely 2-to 3-flowered, stipitate, rhachis 10-12 mm. long. Floral bracts suborbicular to reniform, 6-10 mm. long, ecarinate, thin, glabrous, red. Flowers erect. Pedicels very short and stout. Sepals nearly or quite free but twisted into a slender tube, narrow, obtuse, 16-20 mm. long, coriaceous, sub-glabrous. Petals conglutinated, naked, obtuse, erect, slightly exceeding the sepals. Stamens included.
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