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Terrestrial herb, geophyte, slender, 0.28-0.70 m high; with globose root tubers. Leaves several to many, cauline, elliptic, membranous, spreading, 70-120 x 20-40 mm. Inflorescence lax, racemose; flowers 12-30, resupinate, green, centre whitish. Sepals unequal. Petals divided, spreading; lower anterior lobes, 4-6 mm long, longer and narrower than posterior lobe. Lip 3-lobed, midlobe 4-7 mm long, 2 side lobes shorter, spreading, reflexed; spur 8-15 mm long, thicker in middle. Flowering time Jan.-Apr. Narrower than posterior lobe. Lip 3-lobed, midlobe 4-7 mm long, 2 side lobes shorter, spreading, reflexed; spur 8-15 mm long, thicker in middle. Flowering time Jan.-Apr.
Lip 3-lobed almost to base, mid-lobe 5–8 × c. 1 mm, linear; side lobes slightly longer and narrower, curving upwards like anterior petal lobes; spur 9–15 mm long, inflated in the middle, parallel to ovary.
An orchid. It is a slender plant 25-100 cm tall. It is leafy in the middle of the stem. The flowers are small and green on long stalks. The flowering shoots are 11-30 cm long by 3-4 cm wide.
Terrestrial herb, up to 0.7 m tall. Lip 3-lobed, 6-7 mm long, lobes subequal. Anterior lobe of petal longer and narrower than posterior lobe. Spur 12-15 mm long. Flowers green and white.
Petals 2-lobed ± to base; posterior lobe 4–7 × 1–1.5 mm, linear, ± adnate to dorsal sepal; anterior lobe 5–9 mm long, less than 0.5 mm wide, narrowly linear, curving up.
Inflorescence 11–30 × 3–4 cm, fairly laxly (occasionally densely) many-flowered; bracts 10–20 mm long, usually shorter than the flower.
Leaves spreading, the mid-cauline largest and 10–16 × 3–5 cm, oblanceolate, acute, dark green, the base clasping the stem.
Stem leafy, with c. 7–15 leaves, the 2–3 lowermost sheath-like, the lowermost foliage leaf 15–20 cm from the base.
Dorsal sepal 4–7 × 3–5 mm, ovate, erect, convex; lateral sepals 5–7.5 × 2–4 mm, obliquely lanceolate, spreading.
Ovary and pedicel 11–15 mm long, arched so that flower is held ± horizontally.
A slender terrestrial herb, 1-31/2 ft. high, leafy in the middle of the stem
Terrestrial herb 30–90 cm high with ovoid, ± woolly tubers c. 2 cm long.
Stigmatic arms 1.5–2.5 mm long, clavate, appressed to lip.
Numerous small green flowers in a long loose raceme
Anther c. 1.5 mm tall; canals less than 1 mm long.
Flowers green.
