As currently circumscribed, the genus Geogenanthus includes two other species, G. poeppigii and G. rhizanthus.

Native to Upper Amazonia, it has been documented from the mid-elevation, eastern slopes of the Andes in Ecuador through the lowlands of northern Peru.

Other species in the genus have 3 (less commonly 2) or more leaves in a terminal rosette.

The flowers are borne on long (up to 5 cm) pedicels in a single, or sometimes two, scorpioid cymes on a short peduncle arising from the basal node(s) of the aerial stem.

Flowers have 3 green-brown sepals, 3 blue or purple petals fringed with moniliform trichomes, 5-6 stamens, the three upper of which are bearded with moniliform hairs, and a single tricarpellate pistil.