| Field notes | Terrestial herb in dense clump. Leafy shoot to 90 cm long. Base to 2 cm diam., reticulate, brown. Sheath brown, deeply reticulate. Ligule to 17 mm long bilobed. Lamina sessile, to 37 x 5.5 cm, mid-green; beneath +/- purple-brown, pubescent. Inflorescence to 10 cm long. Peduncle to 7 cm long, scales brown. Spike to 3 x 5 cm. Bracts spiny and prickly; base reddish, centre cream, apex purple. Calyx white. Corolla pale pink. Labellum pale pink, apex bilobed. Stamen eaten. Stigma dark red. Also observed at 1750 m. Material in spirit. DNA sampled. |