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An orchid. It grows 10-70 cm tall. The leaflet shoots are 19 cm long and have 4 leaves. The flowering shoots have 5-8 leaves. The flowering shoots are 3-14 cm long by 2-5 cm wide. There are many flowers. They are pink to red-purple. The tubers are oval and 1-4 cm long by 5-22 mm wide.
Sepals and petals projecting forwards, joined to each other for a third to half of their length, and to the lip for a third or a quarter.
Sterile shoot 4-leaved; the lower 1–2 leaves sheath-like, the upper leaves to 31 × 2 cm, lanceolate, acute.
Bracts to 20 mm long, pubescent on upper surface, spreading or sometimes reflexed at base of inflorescence.
Median sepal 7–16 × 1–2 mm, oblanceolate, rounded; lateral sepals slightly shorter but broader, oblique.
Flowering stem with 5–8 leaves, the largest in the middle, ± erect, 8–26 × 2–5 cm, lanceolate.
Lip 6–16 mm long, the apex acute and reflexed for c. 2 mm, very convex with a wide mouth.
Inflorescence 2.5–14 × 2–5 cm, densely few-to many-flowered, pyramidal when young.
Column 5–6.5 mm long; stigma c. 1.5 mm high and wide; rostellum equally 3-toothed.
Terrestrial herb 10–60 cm tall; tubers to 4 cm long, ovoid to fusiform, woolly.
Flowers pale to deep pink or red-purple, sometimes with darker streaks.
Spurs 2–5.5 mm long, 2 mm in diameter, blunt, parallel to ovary.
Petals similar to median sepal but narrower.
Ovary 6–8 mm long, glabrous or papillose.
