These are surrounded by a ring of pink or purple ligulate florets. Corollas are all ligulate and bright yellow. The florets are all ligulate and bright yellow. The leaves are long, linear and ligulate. Flowers in capitula, with yellow, ligulate florets. It is epiphytic with an ovoid pseudobulb, elongated with ligulate, acuminate, and articulated leaves. The epithet "ligularis" comes from the plant's ligulate corollae. A "ligulate head" has all ligulate flowers. The ray-florets are ligulate, yellow and at first spreading then rolled back. The ligulate florets are yellow and have five triangular teeth at their tip. Yellowish ligulate florets are restricted to "F. mossamedensis" and some species in the section "Longistylis". The head is ligulate, containing several ray florets but no disc florets. A "ligulate flower" is a 5-tipped, strap-shaped, individual flower in the heads of other members. The head is ligulate, bearing many yellow ray florets but no disc florets. The head is ligulate, containing many yellow ray florets but no disc florets.