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Description
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Plants 50–100(–200) mm high. Corm ovoid, 5–7 mm diam., obliquely pointed with small basal ridge, tunics papery, split into slender teeth bent over ridge, ± fibrous and extending upward in a softly fibrous neck. Stem usually exserted up to 50 mm. Leaves (2)3 or 4, lower (1)2 basal, terete-filform, narrowly 4-grooved, 0.5–1.0 mm diam. Peduncles up to 3, subterete-angled; outer bracts green with narrow, colourless membranous margins, 10–16 mm long, laxly ribbed (± 5 veins/mm) with papillate grooves between ribs, inner bracts with wide, brown-speckled membranous margins. Flowers purple with orange-yellow cup, outer tepals pale green with purple feathering on reverse; perianth tube funnel-shaped, ± 4 mm long; tepals oblanceolate to elliptic, 14–20 × 4–6 mm. Filaments shortly exserted from cup; filaments ± 5 mm long, puberulous or pilose basally; anthers ± 4 mm long, yellow. Style dividing just below anther apices, branches ± 1.5 mm long, shortly divided. Flowering time: Sept.–Oct.
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