Herbs 11–33 cm tall. Rhizome ascending, slender, branched. Leaves 2–6, basal. Scales at stem base 1–3 mm wide, not or slightly sheathing. Petiole 1–3.5 cm; leaf blade dark green with pale veins adaxially, oblong or oblong-ovate, 3.5–7 × 1.5–3.5 cm, slightly leathery, base cuneate or attenuate, margin entire or shallowly crenate, apex subacute. Scape ca. 2 mm in diam., narrowly winged, scalelike leaves 1 or 2, brown, narrowly linear, 1–1.5 cm, base slightly amplexicaul, apex acuminate or acute; raceme 4–9-flowered, short, 1.5–2.5(–4) cm. Flowers nodding, broadly saucer-shaped, relatively large. Pedicel 5–8 mm, bract axillary, narrowly lanceolate, 5–8 mm, longer or ca. as long as pedicel, membranous, apex acuminate. Sepals purplish brown, oblong, ca. 4 × 1.5–2 mm, apex obtuse or acute. Petals white, obovate or orbicular, 5–7 × 4–5 mm. Filaments glabrous; anthers red, ca. 3 mm. Style included or slightly exserted, distinctly curved, dilated at apex into a ring. Capsule 6–8 mm in diam. Fl. Jul–Aug, fr. Sep–Oct.
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