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Description:
Plants 120–150 mm high, evidently without a collar of fibers at base. Corms obconic, ± 10 mm diam.; tunics of medium-textured, black fibres. Stem simple or rarely 1-branched, branch exserted from sheathing leaf, 3 aerial internodes long, bearing attenuate, partly dry sheathing leaves 15–18 mm long. Foliage leaf solitary, usually shortly exceeding stem, terete, ± 1 mm diam. when alive, straight below, loosely to tightly coiled in distal 1/3. Rhipidial spathes becoming dry at flowering time, often lacerated, inner 28–35 mm long, outer ± half as long to slightly less. Flowers fugaceous, white to creamy white, outer tepal limbs with yellow nectar guides at bases, evidently half reflexed; outer tepals ± 22 × 8 mm, limb ± as long as claw; inner tepals ± 15 mm long, limbs also half reflexed. Filaments 8–10 mm long, united in lower 3–4 mm; anthers ± 4 mm long; pollen ?white. Ovary subcylindric, ± 7 mm long, included, style branches ± 8 mm long, crests 6–8 mm long, wedge-shaped, ± 2 mm wide at base. Capsules ± ellipsoid, 8–9 mm long. Seeds unknown. Flowering time: October; flower phenology unknown.
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