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Description:
Plants 120–200(–300) mm high. Corm subglobose, 8–20 mm diam., with cormlets at base and in lower leaf axils; tunics of fine fibres. Stem erect, simple or up to 3-branched from near base. Leaves 5–8, suberect to falcate, lanceolate-ensiform, 40–150 × 3–7 mm, acute, with evident main vein, cauline leaves bract-like and often dry. Spike erect, subsecund, (3)5–10-flowered; bracts dry and papery, whitish or flushed pink but brown and densely speckled with rusty brown distally and on upper margins, outer 5–10 mm long, obtuse or 3-to irregularly-toothed, inner subequal or slightly shorter, bifid. Flowers actinomorphic, rotate, pale orange or salmon-pink to red, with dark veins and yellow tube; perianth tube funnel-shaped, 6–10 mm long, ± filiform below widening in upper 2–3 mm to ± 3 mm diam.; tepals subequal spreading, elliptic, obtuse, 10–15(–20) × 4–6(–8) mm, without calluses. Filaments central and erect, 3–5 mm long, reaching < halfway up perianth; anthers 3–4.5 mm long, pale yellow; pollen yellow. Style 7–8 mm long, dividing below or opposite base of anthers, branches 3–5 mm long. Capsules elongate-ellipsoid, trigonous, 15–20(–25) × 5–6 mm, exserted beyond bracts. Flowering time: (July) August to September.
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