SUBGENUS Sarracenella [Luer] Luer 1986
Characterized by the creeping rhizome with erect, thick, short petiolate base leaves and blooms on a short, racemose inflroescence arising from the base of the leaf withoput an annulus and it usuallly produces a facing pair of erect, long-tubular flowers decurved at the apex. The petals and lip are deep within the sepaline tube. The column is elongate with a ventral stigma and a hooded ventral anther.
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