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Description:
Plants 1.5–1.65 m high, forming clumps. Corm ± 30 mm diam. Stem with lowermost peduncle 45–90 mm long. Foliage leaves several, 800–900 × 6–12 mm; reduced sheathing leaves ± 5. Spikes erect, terminal densely 11–13-flowered, laterals ± 10, each 5–10-flowered; bracts lanceolate to elliptic, acuminate, 14–20 × 8 mm, 2 or more internodes long, basal 1/3 to 1/2 green drying brown, often flecked brownish, rest of bract membranous and whitish very sparsely flecked reddish brown or ochre with midline reddish brown to ochre, veins many, coalescing below in solid patch. Flowers sub-rotate, pale magenta-pink with conspicuous red and yellow diamonds at base of tepals; perianth tube (5–)7–8 mm long; tepals 18–19 × 7.0–8.5 mm. Anthers 6–7 mm long. Stigmas held 7–9 mm below top of perianth. Flowering time: January to April.
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