Perennial herb up to 4 dm. high.. Leaves 2, elliptical to reniform, apiculate, up to 4 cm. long and 6.5 cm. broad, with long rather soft hairs especially on upper surface.. Scape with long spreading hairs.. Bracts lanceolate, acuminate, equalling or longer than the shortly stalked ovary, densely long-hairy.. Flowers white or yellowish.. Sepals ovate, apiculate, the laterals very oblique, 3–4.2 mm. long, densely hairy.. Petals narrowly wedge-shaped, 5–7 mm. long, 3-lobed in the upper third, long-ciliate especially on the lobes.. Lip ± fan-shaped, 7–13-lobed in the upper third or quarter, 5–9 mm. long, 4.5–7.5 mm. broad, long-ciliate especially on the lobes.. Spur conical, slightly incurved, 2–2.5 mm. long.. Ovary densely hairy.
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