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Description:
Plants 20–50mm high. Corm globose, 6–15 mm diam., obliquely rounded below, tunics woody, split into bent, grooved or channeled teeth below. Stem subterranean. Leaves 2 or 3, all evidently basal, terete-filiform, narrowly 4-grooved, 0.5–1.0 mm diam. Peduncles 1 or 2, semi-terete, recurved and coiling in fruit; outer bracts softly herbaceous, striate (± 6 veins/mm), with narrow colourless membranous margins and conspicuous brown-flecked membranous tip, 14–18 mm long, inner bracts with wide, brown-flecked membranous margins. Flowers magenta with yellow cup and chestnut brown blotches edged above by a narrow purple or lilac band, outer tepals feathered with purple on reverse; perianth tube funnel-shaped, 5–7 mm long; tepals obovate, 14–20 × 6–9 mm. Filaments ± included, 5–6 mm long, pilose basally, yellow; anthers 2.5–4.0 mm long, circinnate, purple or yellowish. Style dividing well below anthers, purple, branches 3–4 mm long, multifid with 12 or more lobes. Capsules oblong, ± 8 mm long. Flowering time: Aug.
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