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Description:
Plants 50–200 mm high. Corm bell-shaped with flat base and pronounced circular basal rim, 5–10 mm diam., tunics woody, basal rim irregularly fringed, sometimes scalloped . Stem aerial and exserted up to 150 mm or rarely short and subterranean, sometimes extensively branched. Leaves 3 to 7, lower 2 basal, terete and narrowly 4-grooved, 0.5–1.0 mm diam., glabrous. Peduncles up to 7, hemiterete, spreading in fruit; outer bracts green with narrow, colourless or rarely brown-flecked membranous margins, 10–20 mm long, finely striate (4 or 5 veins/mm), inner bracts with narrow or wider, colourless or rarely brown-flecked membranous margins. Flowers golden-yellow or rarely white, sometimes with a dark median line or diffuse brown zone in throat, outer tepals sometimes greenish or brown on reverse; perianth tube funnel-shaped, 4–6 mm long; tepals oblanceolate to elliptic, 15–30 × 7–12 mm, often obtuse. Filaments 4–7 mm long, pilose in lower part, yellow; anthers 3–7 mm long, yellow. Style dividing shortly below to shortly above anther apices, branches divided. Capsules oblong, ± 10 mm long. Flowering time: Aug.–Oct.
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