Authors: Cav.  

Botanical Description

with coarse, broad, rather loose rosettes and a wiry main stem to 40cm high. Basal leaves up to 9 by 7cm on petioles l-3cm long, oblong, ovate and obovate, acute or blunt and having dentate, serrate or irregularly cut margins. Flowers in small to large cymose corymbs, with pendulous slipper-shaped lips 2.5-2.8cm, rich yellow, red blotched in the throat, somewhat dattened, the tip shallowly and crenately lobed. Southern Argentina and Chile, in damp grassy places, in the open or in scrub or woodland, often near streams at 800-1700m. Many populations would be too tall and coarse to interest the alpine gardener, but small neat specimens are distinctly attractive.