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Description:
Plants 300–800 mm high. Corm 15–20 mm diam.; tunics of fine to medium-textured, pale or dark brown fibres. Stem with long basal internode, many-branched, sheathing leaves 25–35 mm long, dry and brown distally. Foliage leaf solitary, channelled, linear, exceeding stem and trailing distally, inserted well above ground at first aerial node. Rhipidial spathes becoming dry above, apices brown, acute; inner 25–35(–40) mm long, outer slightly < 1/2 as long. Flowers fugaceous, pale blue-mauve, outer tepal limbs with yellow nectar guides at bases, strongly vanilla-scented; outer tepals 20–30 × ± 8 mm, lanceolate, laxly spreading; inner tepals 18–28 × 5–6 mm, limbs laxly spreading. Filaments ± 5 mm long, united in lower half; anthers 4–6 mm long, white; pollen white. Ovary narrowly ellipsoid, 8–10 mm long, usually partly included at anthesis; style branches 7–9 mm long, crests linear-lanceolate, 7–12 mm long. Capsules mostly 10–12 mm long, shortly beaked. Seeds angular. Chromosome number 2n = 20. Flowering time: late September to November, extending to December at higher altitudes; opening ± 15:30 and collapsing ± 1900.
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