Tubers not seen, neck to 46 mm long. Stems 150-240 mm tall, 2.6-3.5 mm diam., simple, erect, sometimes 1-3-branched from the base; long white hirsute to hispid hairs, denser towards the apex and at nodes. Leaves opposite and decussate, lamina 14.2-46.7 x 5.0-21.8 mm, oblong-deltoid, base truncate or sagittate and rarely attenuate (usually only in very young leaves), apex sub-acute to round, margins revolute, long white hirsute to hispid hairs, denser below and on veins, above sparser mainly, concentrated along the margins, petiole 2.54-10.80 mm long. Inflorescences: umbels crowded in the upper leaf axils, 3-8-flowered; peduncle 14.7-15.4 mm long, long white hirsute to hispid hairs; bracts linear, 3.1-7.1(-9.0) mm long, dark maroon almost black, with long white hirsute to hispid hairs. Flowers 5-merous, 8.6-9.4 x 12.2-16.8 mm; pedicels 5.5-11.9 mm long, long white hirsute to hispid hairs. Calyx: sepals 2.0-5.5 x 1.4-2.1 mm, lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, apex acute, ventrally glabrous; dorsally with hirsute to hispid hairs 0.7-0.9 mm long. Corolla lobes free almost to the base, sub-erect, broadly ovate to oblong, flat, apical margin round with a notch, 6.3-11.9 x 3.5-4.9 mm, glabrous except for 0.2-0.3 mm long hairs along the margin; few small hairs on the margins; white inside and white and maroon outside, cream and purple, white with tips maroonish outside, white with purple-maroon veins inside and outside and tips totally purple, or cream outside and inside but with a pink-maroon tipped inside with brown-cream hyaline margin and longitudinal purple-maroon striations of varying degree; buds variable in colour, purple with white. Staminal corona lobes 4.0-5.2 x 1.7-2.6 mm, extended 1.1-1.6 mm outward from the gynostegial column, fleshy, the basal part ovate in outline and ± as high as the process extending over the style-stigma-head, the process sometimes dilated to 0.5-0.6 mm broad apex or expand again into a 1.0-1.1 broad apex, apical teeth on process 0.2-0.9 mm long, process ventrally grooved ending in a shallow sinus on the apical and ventral side of the basal lobe, white with greenish tinge or wholly white, very fleshy, base round in outline, elongating into an apical process ± as long as base, process furrowed on ventral surface, apex of process with 3-5-fimbriated apex. Androecium: anthers rectangular, 1.4-2.1 x 0.6-1.0 mm; anther appendages 0.18-0.24 mm broad margin on apex of anthers, ±rectangular to ovate, white, inflexed over the rim of the gynostegial head covering it almost halfway (to 0.53 mm on its surface); anther wings 0.9 x 0.3 mm, rounded without distinct notch, extending 0.17-0.27 mm from gynostegial column. Pollinarium: pendulous; pollinium 0.52-0.59 x 0.27-0.33 x 0.15-0.18 mm, ovoid to oblong, 0.14-0.17 mm thick, distinctly flanged at the outside in 37-73 pm broad zone; caudicle 160-220 x 40-70 pm, circular to flat in cross-section, pollinium attachment subterminal; corpusculum 0.2-0.4 x 0.1-0.2 mm, ovoid, apex rounded, basally or sub-basally attached to caudicle. Gynoecium: gynostegial fissure 0.5-0.6 mm long, notch at the base; gynostegium 5.6-6.1 x 4.8-5.2 mm, the style-stigma-head 2.3-4.8 mm diam., white. Fruit and seed not known.
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