Melasphaerula

Deciduous perennial.Rootstocka bell-shaped corm with a flat base, rooting from base, basal in origin, tunics woody to firm-papery and concentric.Stemaerial, terete and wiry, many-branched, branching divaricate.Leavesseveral, lower 2 or 3 cataphylls; foliage leaves unifacial, with a definite midrib, in a distichous fan, blades lanceolate, plane, soft-textured.Inflorescencea lax compound spike; bracts green, soft-textured, short, inner shorter to +/- as long as outer, notched apically.Flowerszygomorphic and bilabiate, cream to pale yellow; lower tepals with darker median streaks, with a strong sour, musk-like scent, with nectar from septal nectaries; perianth tube obsolete.Tepalsunequal, lanceolate-attenuate, dorsal tepal largest.Stamensunilateral and arcuate; filaments arising in mouth of tube; anthers exserted; pollen monosulcate, operculate, exine perforate.Ovarytriquetrous.Styleexserted, branches expanded above and recurved.Capsulescoriaceous, depressed triquetrous.Seedsglobose, 2 per locule, smooth, matte, surface colliculate.x= 10.