Medium sized terrestrial. Stems to 60 cm tall. Pseudobulbs almost spherical, to 10 cm long, compressed. Leaves 3?5, lanceolate, to 50 cm long, to 7 cm wide. Flowers 4-10, to 4 cm wide; spring to summer. Sepals and petals similar, lanceolate to oblanceolate, not spreading widely, deep pink to magenta, sometimes white. Labellum about as long as petals, midlobe whitish with about 5 pinkish ridges. Syn. Bletia hyacinthina R. Br.

Tibet, China and Japan.

Source: Jeanes, J. (2005). Orchidaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 5. Flowering plants. Monocotyledons. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.