Xenoscapa uliginosa Goldblatt & J.C.Manning

Plants 30-50 mm high, including flowers. Corm 5-8 mm diam.; tunics of fine, netted fibres. Leaves 3, prostrate, oblong, lower two 20-40 x 5-18 mm, upper leaf ± half as large. Stem up to 40 mm long. Spikes 1-flowered; bracts green, 6-7 mm long, inner slightly longer and often shortly forked apically. Flowers zygomorphic, dark pink or purple and darker on tube, lower 3 tepals each with pale creamy yellow patch at base outlined in purple, unscented; perianth tube cylindric, (20-)22-28 mm long, wider and curved just below apex, 1.5-2.0 mm diam. at mouth; tepals subequal but inner slightly wider than outer, 6-7 x 2-3 mm, dorsal erect or suberect and exposing anthers. Stamens unilateral; filaments 3-5 mm long, exserted ± 2 mm from tube; anthers ± 2 mm long, dark purple; pollen grey-blue. Style dividing opposite anther bases, branches 2 mm long, deeply forked. Capsule oblong, ± 10 x 3-4 mm. Seeds ± 1 mm diam.