It has dark green, or intense green leaves, that rise directly from rhizome. They are often flushed purple at the base. They are ensiform (sword shaped), glaucescent, and falcate (sickle-shaped). They can grow up to between 15 to 46 cm long, and between 2 cm and 3 cm wide. It has a slender, stem, that can grow up to between 8 to 30 cm tall. The stem has 1–2 branches (or pedicels), (rarely 3 branches). The stem has 1–2 spathes (leaves of the flower bud), they are green, or stained with purple, or purple at the apex of the spathe. They are greenish at flowering time. They are narrow and rounded, ovate, oblong or oblong-lanceolate shaped. They can be between 2.5 to 8 cm long. In the centre of the petal is a whitish,or white tinged with blue, or pale blue beard. The standards are oval, with an elliptical limb, and 5 to 8 cm long, and 2 to 3 cm wide. It has pale style branches, that are 6 to 10 mm long, with deltoid crests.