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Description:
Plants mostly 40–100 mm high, solitary or clumped. Corm obovoid, 5–20 mm diam. with basal ridge 4–6 mm wide. Leaves (4) 6 to 8, subterete or with median adaxial groove, sometimes only partially emergent at flowering, 15–60 × 0.5–1.5(–2) mm, mostly loosely coiled or helically twisted, ciliolate or ciliate on margins. Flowers hypocrateriform, pale to deep violet, and white or orange in throat; perianth tube trumpet-shaped, widening in distal 5 mm, (15–)20–25 mm long; tepals obovate, (8–)10–15 × (3–)4–8 mm, subacute. Stamens erect; filaments 3–5(–8) mm long, white, yellow or lilac; anthers suberect, 3–6 mm long, yellow. Style (20–)25–40 mm long, dividing near middle of anthers or beyond, branches 2–4(–5) mm long, linear-spathulate. Capsules clavate or turbinate, 8–25 mm long. Seeds angled, ± 1 mm diam., brown, testa colliculate or partly foveolate. Chromosome number: 2n= 12. Flowering time: Apr.–June.
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