| Field notes | Herb to 0.4 m; leaf green above, light green below with hint of grey; pulvinus dark olive green to purple-green; petiole and sheath green turning purplish toward base; bracts, usually 3,slightly stiffish, green above (upper 1/2) purple below; mesophyll purple, pubescent and acuminate; bicarinate prophyll purple, pubescent; ovary white; tube whitish at base, glabrous petals white to translucent; outer staminode and staminode callosum bright yellow |