Plants slender to fairly robust, 240-470 mm; leaves cauline, many, suberect, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, to 150 x 15 mm; basal leaf sheaths conspicuously horizontally barred with black. Inflorescences dense, many-flowered; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, to 30 mm long, hispid along margins and midrib; ovary curved, subsessile, 10-12 mm long. Flowers green. Sepals hispid along margins and veins; median sepal erect, cu-cullate, ovate to broadly ovate, acute, 3-4.5 mm long; lateral sepals spreading, obliquely lanceolate, acute, 3.5-5 mm long. Petals simple, narrowly oblong, curved, obtuse or truncate, with anterior basal lobe, c. as long as the median sepal. Lip tripartite, carnose, 4-5 mm long, lobes narrowly oblong, obtuse; midlobe 2.5-4 mm long; side lobes shorter than the midlobe, 2-2.5 mm long; spur inflated apically, longer than the ovary, 16-23 mm long. Anther emarginate, 1.5 mm tall; canals to 0.5 mm long; stigmatic processes claªvate, depressed, c. 1 mm long; central rostellum lobe ovate, c. 0.5 mm long, lateral lobes trianguªlar.
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Terrestrial herb, geophyte, fairly robust, 0.24-0.47 m high; with globose root tubers. Leaves 6-8, cauline, clasping stem, leaf sheaths barred and spotted maroon, 90-150 x 9-15 mm. Inflorescence dense, racemose; flowers 8-30, resupinate, green to yellow-green. Sepals unequal, green, coarsely hairy, 3-5 mm long. Petals undivided, as long as median sepal. Lip 3-lobed, midlobe 2.5-4.0 mm long, carnose, obtuse, 2 side lobes shorter; spur 16-23 mm long, apex inflated. Flowering time Jan.-Apr.
Terrestrial herb, up to 470 mm tall. Bracts and sepals hispid. Spur 1.5 times longer than ovary. Lateral lobes of lip shorter than midlobe. Rostellor arms lobed adaxially near base. Flowers green.
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