Plants single, leaves gray-green, flower stalk growing laterally but flowers erect upwardly despite horizontal stalk, stalk ca 20 feet long, inflorescence down 1/3 of stalk, ovary, neck, tube green, tepals dark golden yellow-orange, especially towards tips, clasping filaments, inner tepal lobes with thin wings, incurved at tips, filaments, anthers, style slightly lighter; measurements after Gentry (1982), in mm, during anthesis: tl=56, o=29x7.5, n=3, tu=11x13, fil ins=6,4, fil=62, a=12, tep=12x7,6 (outer), 10.5x6,5 (inner), sty=50.