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Description:
Plants 200–350 mm high, unbranched, with papery cataphylls often becoming fibrous above. Corm ca. 15 mm diam.; tunics of pale, medium-fine netted fibers extending upward in a collar. Stem simple and lacking sheathing leaves. Foliage leaf of flowering individuals 40–65 mm long, seldom exceeding rhipidia, inserted shortly below and partly sheathing rhipdia. Rhipidial spathes 40–60 mm long, green or becoming dry above, attenuate; inner spathe equal to or shortly exceeding outer. Flowers yellow; outer tepals lanceolate, ca. 35 mm long, claws to 15 cm long, spreading; inner tepals 25–30 mm long, erect. Filaments ca. 7.5 mm long, free in upper 1/2–1/4; anthers 7.5–9 mm long. Ovary 7–10 mm long; style branches to 15 mm long, crests 5-9 mm long. Capsules ovoid-globose, to 10 mm long, seeds unknown. Flowering time: late November to January.
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