Plants terrestrial, robust and stout, 0.10-0.56 m high. Leaves 2-6, cauline, ovate, 40-240 mm long. Inflorescence dense, 7-23-flowered; bracts strongly deflexed. Flowers pale green and yellowish with tinges of dull purple-brown. Sepals deflexed; median sepals 3-7 mm long; lateral sepals slightly longer. Petals 2-4 mm long, less deflexed, basal parts from short tube. Lip deeper than tall, apical flap 2 mm long, bent back; spur slender, 13-18 mm long. Flowering time Aug.-Oct.
Robust, tuberous geophyte to 55 cm. Leaves 2-6, cauline, ovate to narrowly ovate, bracts deflexed. Flowers few to many in a moderately dense raceme, yellowish green with purple tinge, sepals 3-7 mm long, lip with narrow entrance and spurs 13-18 mm long.