Perennial, geophytic herb, 100-410 mm high; stems basally branched, uniseriately hairy or glabrous. Leaves longer than internodes, blade 10-140 x 2-7 mm. Inflorescence 4-12-flowered, ± globose; peduncles 2-10 mm, erect, pubescent. Flowers: pedicels 0.5-2.0 mm long; corolla dorsally green, lobes cream-coloured inside, 3 x 2 mm, narrowly triangular, margins revolute, apex recurved, papillose; corona lobes ventrally white, dorsal surface maroon, up to 10 mm long, sessile, abruptly broadened, triangular, long-attenuate, reaching over conical style head, ventral side of process furrowed, apical ends inflexed. Pollinia curved inwards, translators broad. Flowering time Nov.-Mar., peaking in Dec., Jan. Fruit finely pubescent, 25-45 x 3-7 mm, bristles up to 2 mm long.
Perennial, geophytic herb, 100-200 mm high. Leaves with blade narrowly ovate, base sagittate to truncate. Flowers: inflorescence subsessile; pedicels 2 mm long; corona with apical horn bending inwards over gynostegial column, channelled on ventral surface, side flanks slightly extended; corona lobes 6-8 mm long, purple-brown with paler margins; corolla cup-shaped, edge revolute, tips recurved; green with maroon outside, cream-coloured to white inside; Nov.-Mar., Jun. Fruit a follicle.