Without our patronage of custom, they won t be able to fund expeditions to all the remote places these things come from. This comes from marshy regions within Paraguay.it s yellow and clawed with paler yellowing over the orange yellow at flowering. This one really has to be seen to be described. Flowers in habitat December through to February. Plants up to 20cm.
Flowers whitish flushed purple, with the centre urn like.
The claw surfused purple, the spreading blade with bluish purple markings. The inner segments, set with its claw purple suffused, veined and dotted purple and brown. Flowers on this are short lived. Can be bright blue or lilac blue in its solitary flower. The anthers on this are deep blue, with the style arms whitish.