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Description:
Plants 100–160 mm high. Corm globose, asymmetric with oblique, flattened side, ± 10 mm diam.; tunics concentric, dark brown, fragmenting into vertical sections. Stem filiform, flexuose, with up to four branches from axils of cauline leaves. Leaves 4–7, soft-textured, lower 2 or 3 basal and ± half as long as stem, spreading to prostrate, linear to falcate, plane with slightly thickened and raised main vein, 2–3 mm wide, upper leaves cauline, progressively decreasing in size, partly to entirely sheathing. Spike 1-flowered on main axis and branches; bracts green, soft, flushed purple, margins membranous, ± transparent, 8–10 mm long, inner slightly shorter. Flowers zygomorphic, nodding with tepals held vertically, blue-mauve with greenish cream throat edged with dark blue; perianth tube funnel-shaped, slightly curved, ± 3 mm long; tepals narrowly oblong, obtuse, spreading at right angles to tube, 14–18 × 4.0–5.5 mm, inner slightly narrower than outer. Filaments unilateral, declinate, 7–9 mm long, exserted 7–8 mm; anthers 3–4 mm long, dull pink. Style dividing near apex of anthers, branches 3–4 mm long. Flowering time: September.
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