a delicate dwarf terrestrial herb; stolons finely filiform to capillary, creeping among moss and dwarf herbage or on wet soil, sometimes forming small matted tufts; rhizoids from the base of the scape and here and there from the stolons and even the leaves; leaves scattered on the stolons or in small fascicles at the base of the scapes, narrowly spathulate-linear, obtuse, very gradually attenuated into the petiole, up to 5 lin. long, 1/3 lin. broad, rarely broader; bladders from the stolons and the leaves, ovoid-globose, about 1/4– 1/3 lin. long, 2-lipped, lips fimbriate along the margin, the upper depressed-rotundate, the lower very short; peduncle filiform to subcapillary, 2–8 in. long, straight or slightly flexuous, simple or rarely with 1–2 long erect branches from near the base; flowers 6–1, distant; bracts ovate-lanceolate, the lowest 1 or 2 often barren; bracteoles lanceolate, about 1/2 lin. long; pedicels very short or at length up to 1 (rarely 1 1/2) lin. long; sepals orbicular or ovate-orbicular, 3/4 to over 4/5 lin. long; corolla pale purple with the exception of the large yellow palate, 3–5 lin. long, upper lip ovate, usually broad, to ovate-orbicular, minutely 2-lobed or emarginate, about 1 lin. long, lower lip semicircular, 2 1/2–4 lin. long, very broad, obscurely lobed or undulate, palate smooth, slightly 2-gibbous; spur rather slender, usually acute, straight or slightly curved, subhorizontal to deflexed, as long as or slightly shorter (rarely longer) than the lower lip; anthers about 1/3 lin. long; filaments filiform, 1/2 lin. long; stigma sessile, upper lip subulate-linear to filiform, shorter than the broad orbicular lower lip; capsule globose, up to 1 1/2 lin. in diam.; seeds subglobose or irregularly obovoid, 1/8– 1/6 lin. long, smooth. null
