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Description:
Plants (250–)400–700 mm high. Corm 15–20 mm diam.; tunics dark brown, inner layers unbroken, outer becoming partly fibrous, sticky inside. Stem usually several branched from upper nodes, sticky below nodes, with cauline sheathing leaves 25–60 mm long, green below, dry and brown above, tips dry, acute-attenuate; with up to 3 branches per node, branches parallel to stem below, flexed outward above sheathing leaf. Foliage leaves usually 3, lower 2 basal. channelled, arching, becoming trailing and broken distally. Rhipidial spathes green, apices acute, dry and brown, inner 25–40 mm long, outer 1/2 to 2/3 as long. Flowers fugaceous, buff to light brown with yellow, crescent-shaped nectar guides at bases of outer and inner tepal limbs, claws darkly striped, tepal claws forming a wide cup ± 10 mm deep, limbs reflexed to ± 35º; outer tepals 22–33 × 7–9 mm, claws slightly shorter than limbs, inner tepals shorter, to 20–28 mm long. Filaments 8–12 mm long, free but parallel and contiguous in lower 3/4, diverging distally; anthers 4–7 mm long, brown, pollen light brown. Ovary ovoid, 5–7 mm long; style branches 6–7 mm long, diverging, stigma bilobed with sterile, erect appendage between lobes, crests erect, 3–6 mm long. Capsules and seeds not known. Chromosome number 2n = 20. Flowering time: September to October, flowers opening 15: 30–16:00 and fading at dusk.
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