Plants (250-)400-700 mm high. Corm 15-20 mm diam.; tunics dark brown, inner layers unbroken, outer becoming partly fibrous, sticky inside. Stem usually several-branched from upper nodes, sticky below nodes, with cauline sheathing leaves 25-60 mm long, green below, dry and brown above, tips dry, acute-attenuate; with up to 3 branches per node, branches parallel to stem below, flexed outward above sheathing leaf. Foliage leaves usually 3, lower 2 basal, channelled, arching, becoming trailing and broken distally. Rhipidial spathes green, apices acute, dry and brown, inner 25-40 mm long, outer 1/2-2/3 as long. Flowers fugaceous, buff-coloured to light brown with yellow, crescent-shaped nectar guides at bases of outer and inner tepal limbs, claws darkly striped, tepal claws forming a wide cup ± 10 mm deep, limbs reflexed to ± 35º; outer tepals 22-33 x 7-9 mm, claws slightly shorter than limbs, inner tepals shorter, up to 20-28 mm long. Filaments 8-12 mm long, free but parallel and contiguous in lower 3/4, diverging distally; anthers 4-7 mm long, brown; pollen light brown. Ovary ovoid, 5-7 mm long; style branches 6-7 mm long, diverging, stigma bilobed with sterile, erect appendage between lobes, crests erect, 3-6 mm long. Capsules and seeds not known.
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Cormous geophyte, 300-450 mm tall, stems sticky, branched. Leaves 2-5, linear, channelled, trailing above. Flowers enclosed in obtuse spathes, brownish with green and cream markings, tepals cupped below, limbs outspread, filaments free, contiguous, style crests short.
Cormous geophyte, 30-45 cm, stems sticky. Leaves 2-5, linear, channelled and trailing. Flowers brownish with green markings.
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