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Stems 20-50cm high, quite robust, erect, often forming vigorous clumps. Basal leaves upright, strongly channelled, lanceolate, green at flowering time. Flowers loosely borne, five to a spike, up to 7cm across, pale whitish-green with a striking network pattern of prominent green veins, the thick lip green with bright yellow papillae, or else yellow with green-tipped papillae. Chile and Andean Argentina, from the region of volcanoes southwards to the tip of Patagonia and Fuegia in alpine bunch fescue meadows and mountain steppe communities, both usually of volcanic sand or ash, also grassy clearings in nothofagus forest from sea level to 2000m. One of the finest and hardiest species.
