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Description:
Plants 160–350 mm high. Corm ± conical, 12–18 mm at widest diam., with numerous small cormlets round base; tunics of medium-textured, matted, dark grey fibres. Stem flexuose, 1–5-branched, rarely simple, bearing sheathing leaves 32–38 mm long. Foliage leaf solitary, linear, longer than stem, erect to falcate, narrowly channeled, 2–3 mm wide opened flat. Rhipidial spathes with brown, attenuate tips, inner 33–45 mm long, outer ± half as long. Flowers fugaceous, blue, outer tepal limbs with white nectar guides at bases sometimes edged with dark blue, limbs of both whorls ± half reflexed, inner often more so than outer, unscented; outer tepals ± lanceolate, 22–27 × 8–9 mm, limbs 15–18 mm long, claws 7–8 mm long, inner tepals 17–20 × 5–7 mm. Filaments 8 mm long, united in lower half; anthers ± 5 mm long, grey-blue; pollen white or pale blue. Ovary ± cylindric, 5–6 mm long; style branches ± 7 × 5 mm, crests narrowly wedge-shaped, 7–8 mm long. Capsules and seeds unknown. Flowering time: mid-September to late October; opening ± 15:00, collapsing at dusk.
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