Satyrium longicauda var. longicauda Schltr.

Plants (170-) 260-530 (-810) mm tall; leaves 1 or 2, on a separate shoot next to the flowering stem, 40-200 mm long. Inflorescences lax, (3-) 12-35 (-60)-flowered; bracts narrowly ovate, 1.4-1.8 times the length of the 6-15 mm long ovary, strongly deflexed, lower bracts 6-12 mm broad. Flowers white to pink, usually with deeper-coloured nerves, spurs and distal parts of sepals and petals tinged deep pink. Sepals free almost to the base and distally fairly sharply recurved, lateral sepals 5-11 mm long. Petals forming with the sides of the lip a loose tube, then sharply deflexed. Lip with prominent puberulous apical flap; spurs 22-46 mm long. Viscidia elliptic and prominent; stigma very broadly obovate, emarginate, c. 2 mm tall; rostellum slightly longer than stigma, with appendix.