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Description:
Plants 150–200 mm high. Corm unknown. Stem mostly 2–4-branched, flexed above sheaths of basal and cauline leaves, sheathing leaves 30–40 mm long, attenuate, dry and light brown in distal half. Foliage leaf solitary, basal, linear, falcate, ± twice as long as stem, narrowly channeled, ± 2 mm wide opened flat, often dry and trailing distally. Rhipidial spathes dry and light brown in distal half, attenuate, inner 30–35 mm long, outer almost half as long. Flowers fugaceous, pale ivory-yellow, limbs of all tepals with deeper yellow nectar guides at bases, spreading; outer tepals narrowly obovate, 20–25 × 7–8 mm, limbs 18–22 mm long, claws of both whorls ± 2 mm long, ascending as a narrow cup including lower half of filament column, inner tepals 18–21 × 6–7 mm. Filaments ± 5 mm long, united in smooth, cylindric column 4 mm long, free and diverging in upper 1 mm; anthers ± 3 mm long before anthesis, ± 2 mm after releasing pollen, exceeding style branches, yellow; pollen yellow. Ovary spindle-shaped, usually exserted, ± 5.5 mm long; style branches flattened, 2.5 × 1.5 mm long, with broad stigmatic lobes, crests ± linear, erect, ± 1 mm long. Capsules obovoid, ± 10 mm long. Seeds unknown. Flowering time: September to mid October
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