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Terrestrial herb 50-100 cm tall; tubers elongate-ovate, 2,5-5x2-2,5 cm; sterile stem 9-14 cm tall, covered by several overlapping red-spotted sheaths, 1-4 leaved at apex, with lanceolate acute leaves 15-32x2-5 cm; flowering stem robust, leafy throughout its length; leaves 11-14, erect, appressed to stem, lanceolate, acute, the largest 7-11x1,5-4,5 cm, decreasing in size upwards; inflorescence cylindrical, 10-30 cm long, 4-7 cm Ø, 6-30-flowered; flowers large, white to mauve, purple or magenta with darker spots; bracts leafy, lanceolate, 25-70 mm long; pedicel and ovary c. 20 mm long; dorsal sepal conical, 18-30x15-25 mm, hood 10-15 mm deep, with spur (with wide mouth) 10-17 mm long, curved downwards, ± club-shaped at apex; lateral sepals obliquely oblong, 16-22x5-10 mm, projecting; petals erect, inside hood, oblong-lanceolate, 13-18x1,5-5 mm; lip linear, 10-17x1-1,5 mm, projecting. |
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