Terrestrial herb with by testicular tubers.Leaves dimorphic, with ovate spreading basal leaves and loosely convoluted leaves along the stem. Inflorescence an erect lax spike; bracts half as long as the ovaries, green to somewhat chartaceous. Flowers small, more or less resupinate, with the sepals and petals not spreading; ovary twisted. Sepals free, entire, 1-nerved. Petals more or less enclosed by the sepals, 3-nerved, slightly shorter than the sepals. Lip shorter than the sepals and petals and enclosed by them, 3-lobed and 3-nerved; the side lobes blunt and shorter than the mid-lobe; spur short, straight or curved. Column short; rostellum square with a very small mid-lobe; viscidia separate and held in shallow notches in the rostellum side lobes; staminodes minute; anther erect, 2-celled; stigma 2-lobed, the lobes sessile, slightly convex, diverging from the base. Worldwide: A monotypic genus endemic to eastern Zimbabwe. Mozambique: 1 taxon. |
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