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Terrestrial herb 45-90 cm tall, glabrous; tubers ± ovoid, 4-4,5x1-2 cm; sterile shoot to 7 cm long, 3-4-leaved, upper leaves lanceolate, 17-19x3,5-5,5 cm; fertile shoot almost covered by sheathing leaves; sheaths 6-10, lanceolate, c. 5-12x1,5-3 cm; inflorescence cylindrical, 11-30x1,5-2 cm, laxly many-flowered; flowers curved outwards, sessile, greenish (-white) turning brown; bracts pinkish (as rachis), reflexed, 8-27 mm long; ovary 5-7 mm long; sepals and petals decurved; dorsal sepal oblong, 4-6x1 mm; laterals similar but c. twice as wide; petals oblanceolate, c. 4x1 mm, margin ciliolate; lip obovoid, c. 5-6x6-8 mm, mouth narrow; spurs 5-8 mm long, parallel to ovary. |
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