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Description:
Plants with branched stems, sometimes acaulescent, branches and leaves sometimes clustered at first aerial node or remote from one another; corms tunics dark brown, initially unbroken, later splitting irregularly, sometimes ultimately fibrous. Leaves several or solitary. Rhipidial spathes blunt or truncate, with outer spathe often diverging apically. Flowers fugaceous, pale yellow to ± beige (rarely pale pink) with dark venation, sometimes with perianth tube; stamens united in lower half; style branches well developed or reduced and lacking crests (in M. nana with paired filiform arms extended horizontally). Capsules ± club-shaped. Basic chromosome number x = 10.
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