Flowers c. 2 cm in diameter, white to rose-pink, usually opening pale and darkening with age; sepals greenish-purple.
Inflorescence up to 10(15)-flowered, flowers secund; ovary 3–6 mm long; bracts 5–7 × 2.5–4 mm, ovate, hairy.
Lip 12–17 mm long, 5–7-lobed, the lobes 2–4 mm long, obtuse, with raised median nerves.
Petals entire, 12–17 × 2 mm,linear-oblong, obtuse, with a slightly raised median nerve.
Ovary ovoid, constricted at top just below the flower, hairy.
Spur 2–3 mm long, conical, obtuse, upturned at apex.
Scape without sheaths, with spreading hairs.
Tubers two or three, c. 15 × 10 mm, ovoid.
Sepals 5–7 × 2–3 mm, ovate, hairy.
Terrestrial herb (6)16–30 cm tall.