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Terrestrial slender herb, 10-40 cm tall, glabrous; tubers ellipsoid, 1-2x0,4-1,1 cm; stem leafy; leaves 5-8, the lowest 1-2 sheath-like, next 2 spreading, close to base, elliptical, 2,5-13x1-4,5 cm, the remaining bract-like 2,5-6,5x0,7-1,2 cm; inflorescence 5-14 cm long, cylindrical, 1-2 cm Ø, many-flowered; flowers yellow(-green) or cream, sometimes fragrant; bracts lanceolate, 5-15x4 mm, reflexed; ovary 5-6 mm long; sepals and petals decurved, ciliolate at apex; dorsal sepal oblanceolate, c. 3x0,5 mm; laterals longer and wider; petals smaller; lip hooded, ellipsoid, 3-4 mm long, fleshy, apex shortly recurved, mouth narrow; spurs 3-5 mm long, parallel to ovary, apex bulbous. |
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