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Description:
Plants small, ± 50 mm high. Corm spindle shaped, ± 10 mm diam.; tunics dark brown, very hard, breaking into ± netted fibres. Stem subterranean, with 2–4 ± sessile branches clustered at ground level, with cataphylls pale, becoming fibrous and forming a collar around base. Leaves several, basal longest, 40–60 mm long, linear-filiform, narrowly channelled, rigid, remaining leaves similar but shorter, clustered at ground level. Rhipidial spathes green, 25–30 mm long, inner entirely sheathing, outer somewhat leaf-like, sheathing for ± 5 mm, free distally. Flowers fugaceous, yellow, outer tepal limbs with yellow-orange nectar guides at bases; tepals united in tube 20–30 mm long, outer 23–30 mm long, claw 7–10 mm long, ascending, limb spreading to laxly reflexed, inner tepals 17–22 mm long, also spreading or becoming reflexed. Filaments 5–6 mm, united in lower 1/3; anthers ± 5 mm long, yellow; pollen yellow. Ovary 4–5 mm long, subsessile, included; style branches 10–12 mm long, crests ± 10 mm long. Capsules and seeds unknown. Chromosome number 2n = 20. Flowering time: October.
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