Leaves are generally alternate, often palmately lobed or compound and palmately veined. Leaves are basal, glossy and somewhat deeply veined, ovate and acuminate. The flowers are fragrant and hermaphroditic, surrounded by five unequal, thinly veined, yellowish-white petals. It grows tall, with leaves that are palmately veined, with a scalloped and serrated margin. The leaves vary from in length, with palmately veined lobes. The leaf blades are undivided and pinnately veined. The leaves are lanceolate, long, broad, pinnately veined. The laminas are pinnately veined and can be serrate, dentate or entire at the margin. The pale yellow-green leaves are veined, and covered with fine hairs. The sepals can be deeply veined dark purple with a yellow-white signal (centre). Each leaf is deeply veined lengthwise with three curved lines. The leaflets are bright green, elliptic-ovular, pinnately veined, and less than in length. The alternate leaves are simple, pinnately veined, measuring five to six inches long and wide. The floors and walls are of milk-white marble veined with blue. The frill is deeply veined on both the top and the underside by arterial grooves.