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An orchid. It is a herb that grows in soil. It grows 50 cm tall. The 2 leaves at the base of the stem are flat on the ground. They are 6 cm long by 10 cm wide. They are oval or kidney shaped. There are 4 leaves on the stem that are 2-6.5 cm long and sheath the stem. The flowering shoots are 4-16 cm long by 3-6 cm wide. There can be up to 20 flowers in a dense cluster. The flowers are white or pink and waxy. The tubers are 1-3 cm long.
Basal leaves 2, appressed to ground, the larger up to 6 × 10 cm, ovate, orbicular or reniform, glabrous, rather fleshy; stem with c. 4 sheathing leaves, 2–6.5 cm long.
Lip 9–16 mm long with 2–3 mm reflexed at apex, 11–14 mm wide when spread out, very convex, forming a hood with a prominent keel.
Median sepal 7–17 × 3–4 mm, oblong, obtuse; lateral sepals 9–20 × 4.5–7 mm, obliquely oblanceolate, obtuse.
Sepals and petals projecting or deflexed, joined shortly at base to each other and to the lip.
Spurs 8–10 mm long, tapering from a wide mouth to an acute apex, parallel to ovary.
Terrestrial herb 25–65 cm tall; tubers 1–3 cm long, ovoid or ellipsoid, tomentose.
Column 4–7 mm high, curved; stigma 2–3 × 3–4 mm; rostellum mid-lobe 1.5 × 1.5 mm.
Inflorescence 4–16 × 3–6 cm, fairly densely few-to c. 20-flowered.
Flowers scented, white, the tips of the spurs green.
Petals 7–14 × 2.5–5 mm, oblanceolate, rounded.
White or pink-tinged rather waxy flowers
A terrestrial herb up to 2 ft. high
Bracts up to 30 × 17 mm, reflexed.
Ovary c. 10 mm long, with 6 wings.
