Arethusa bulbosa

Plants 2–40 cm. Leaves: blade 5–23 cm × 3–12 mm. Inflorescences: floral bracts 2, inconspicuous. Flowers pink to magenta, rarely white or bluish, gaping, large; sepals erect, narrowly oblanceolate to narrowly oblong, 20–55 × 3–9 mm; petals arcuate, 23–49 × 4–10 mm; lip obovate to oblong, arcuate to reflexed near middle, often obscurely 3-lobed, 19–35 ×10–19 mm; disc with crest of yellow lamellae and fleshy processes. Capsules erect, ovoid to ellipsoid, 15–25 mm. 2n = 40.

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