Perennial epiphytic herbs; stolons fleshy, radiating from the base of the in-florescence, several swollen near the point of origin to form ellipsoid tubers 1-1.5 cm long. Photosynthetic organs 1-4, leaflike, 5-15 cm long; lamina coriaceous, multinerved, the nerves drying prominent on both surfaces, narrowly elliptic to elliptic, to 2.5 cm wide, the apex acute or acuminate; pseudopetiole usually 2-3 or more times as long as the lamina. Traps borne on filiform stolon-branches, ovoid, stalked, ca. 1 mm long, the mouth basal, the upper lip with 2 subulate re-curved appendages. Inflorescences to 30 cm long; peduncle 1.5-2 mm thick, 1-3-flowered; bracts linear-lanceolate, acute, usually falcate, 1-3 cm long, the bracteoles similar but much narrower and shorter, the sterile scales on the pe-duncle 2-4, similar to the bracts and often larger; pedicels erect, 1-3 times as long as the bract. Flowers with the calyx lobes subequal, ovate, acute, 2-4 cm long, 1.3-2.0 cm wide; corolla violet or mauve with a yellow palate, 3-5 cm long, glabrous or sparsely stipitate-glandular, the upper lip broadly ovate to + orbicular, the apex rounded, about as wide as the upper calyx lobe, the lower lip much larger, transversely elliptic, apically retuse or emarginate, the palate gibbous, prominent, the spur narrowly conical-subulate, curved, the apex obtuse or sub-acute, shorter than the lower lip. Capsules + globose, 8-12 mm long; seeds numer-ous, narrowly cylindrical-fusiform, 0.35-0.5 mm long.
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