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Leaf solitary, appearing after flowering, prostrate, 6–15 × 8–25 mm, cordate to almost orbicular, sometimes obscurely angled, glabrous, dark olive-green, often with silvery rays, purple beneath; veins 7–9(10); petiole up to 10 mm long, sulcate with 1–2 sheathing cataphylls.
Sepals and petals spreading, closing again after about 8 hours anthesis or earlier if pollinated, subequal, linear-ligulate, acute, brownish-green; lateral sepals 8–15.5 × 3.5 mm, oblique.
Lip to 9–15.5 × 8 mm, obovate-cuneate, 3-lobed, white with a yellow centre; lateral lobes oblong-triangular, obtuse; mid-lobe fimbriate, suborbicular, with numerous subulate appendages.
Scape erect, terete, 1-flowered, with (1)2–4 sheathing cataphylls, lengthening to c. 10 cm when fruiting; bract 0–1.5 mm long.
Column 4–9 mm long, clavate, glabrous; pollinia c. 1.5 mm long; ovary c. 3 mm long; capsule c. 9 mm long.
Erect terrestrial herb 2–8.5(10.5) cm tall, glabrous except for lip and subterranean parts.
Tuber 3–8 mm in diameter, subspherical or ovoid, (2)3(4)-noded.
Flower more or less erect.
