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Terrestrial herb, geophyte, fairly robust, 0.2-0.7 m high; with globose root tubers. Leaves many, cauline, elliptic, 70-120 x 18-40 mm. Inflorescence lax, racemose; flowers 2-18, resupinate, green to yellowish green, stigmas white. Sepals unequal; median sepal ovate, 9-17 mm long, forming hood. Petals divided, spreading; lower anterior lobes horn-like, curved upwards, not crossing each other, longer than posterior lobe. Lip 3-lobed, midlobe 20-27 mm long, 2 side lobes shorter; spur 30-50 mm long, inflated towards apex. Flowering time Dec.-Feb.
Herb, up to 0.7 m high. Leaves several, cauline. Flowers: lower petal lobes linear, horn-like, spreading forwards and curved upwards, twice as long as posterior lobe; spur 30-50 mm long, inflated towards apex; perianth green with white stigmas; Jan., Feb.
Lip 3-lobed with an undivided base c. 2 mm long; mid-lobe 17–26 mm long; side lobes 12–21 mm long; all less than 1 mm wide, narrowly linear; spur 3–5 cm long, parallel to ovary and pedicel, the apical third much swollen.
Terrestrial herb, up to 0.7 m high. Spur 30-50 mm long, inflated towards apex. Anterior petal lobe linear, curved, twice as long as posterior lobe. Flowers green with white stigmas.
Leaves 8–13, the lowermost 1–3 sheath-like; the 4–5 mid-stem leaves suberect or spreading, the largest 7–13 × 1.5–4 cm, ovate or lanceolate; the upper ones grading into the bracts.
Petals 2-lobed ± to base, upper lobe 9–15 mm long, filiform, adnate to dorsal sepal; lower lobe 25–40 mm long, c. 1 mm wide, horn-like, curving up.
Dorsal sepal erect, 11–19 × 6–7 mm, ovate, apiculate, convex; lateral sepals deflexed, 12–19 × 6–9 mm, oblique, rolled up lengthwise.
Terrestrial herb 20–80 cm tall; tubers to 3.5 × 2 cm, ovoid or ellipsoid, woolly.
Inflorescence 4–27 × 6–9 cm, several-to many-flowered; bracts to c. 30 mm long.
Anther erect, 4–6 mm high, canals 8–14 mm long, porrect, the tips upturned.
Stigmas porrect, 8–13 mm long, slender, widened and truncate at apex.
Rather loose raceme of green or greenish-white flowers
Flowers pale green or yellow-green, white in centre.
Pedicel and ovary erect or incurved, 35–45 mm long.
An erect herb 1-21/2 ft. high with leafy stem
Stem leafy.
An orchid.
