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Description:
Plants 60–200(–300) mm high. Corm conic, 15–20 mm diam., tunics of pale, coarse-textured fibres, accumulating. Stem erect or flexed upward above uppermost sheath and then suberect, minutely papillate at least toward base, usually simple. Leaves (5–)7–13, prostrate to inclined, oblong to lanceolate, usually < half as long as stem, 40–140(–200) × 6–16 mm, obtuse to subacute. Spike deflexed or horizontal, (2–)4–8(–12)-flowered; bracts obovate, firm-textured, green with hyaline margins, 4–7(–10) mm long, inner slightly shorter. Flowers (25–)30–45 mm long, pale yellow to cream (± white), ± flushed dull purple on reverse of tepals, base of lower tepals marked orange, strongly violet-scented; perianth tube funnel-shaped, (15–)20–25 mm long with basal tubular portion 5–9 mm long, widening ± abruptly into flared upper portion; tepals unequal, dorsal largest, suberect, ovate, 13–18 × 8–14 mm, upper laterals slightly narrower, lower tepals recurved, 12–14 × 8–12 mm. Filaments arcuate, 14–20 mm long, included; anthers 6–8 mm long. Style dividing at or slightly beyond anther apices. Capsules oblong, 10–12 × 8–10 mm, papillate. Seeds obliquely subglobose with inflated chalaza and raphe, 2.5–3.0 mm diam, wrinkled, glossy reddish brown. Flowering time: July–Aug.
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