Stems up to 400mm, grey green. Basal leaves petiolate, up to 170 x 70mm, blade broadly elliptic, dark shiny green above, paler below. Stem leaves sessile, in whorls of 3-5, up to 70 x 25mm, dark shiny green below, matt grey green above. Flowers 2-3/ stem, in a short raceme; pedicels recurved at apex, subtended by a recrurved, leaf-like bract _c._ 50 x 12mm. Flowers _c._ 23 x 35mm. Outer perianth segments _c._ 30 x 18mm, broadly ovate, ± acute, margin reflexed near tip; inner segments _c._ 32 x 16mm, ± oblong- ovate, margins undulate, apex obtuse and slightly incurved. Nectar pouches not very prominent externally. Perianth greyed-purple (187A) outside with a glaucous overlay, blotched green around nectar pouch and unevenly checquered in upper half; internally the conspicuous nectaries are yellow/green (144A) and the checquering more obvious