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Description:
Plants mostly 450–600 mm high. Corm 14–20 mm diam.; tunics of dark brown netted fibres. Stem with 2 or 3 aerial internodes, up to 10-branched, rarely simple, sheathing leaves with dry brown, attenuate apices, 50–80 mm long. Foliage leaf solitary, ± basal, linear, channelled, 3–4 mm wide, either exceeding stem or trailing distally. Rhipidial spathes with dry, attenuate apices, inner 60–80 mm, outer ± 1/2 as long. Flowers long-lived, white to pale blue or lilac, outer tepal limbs with nectar guides of small brown dots at bases, lanceolate, half reflexed, inner tepals and style branches dotted green or brown; outer tepals 25–30 mm long, claws ascending, ± as long as limbs, velvety on inner surface, velvety to scabrid outside; inner tepals 3-lobed, lobes laxly spreading, subequal, ± linear, 5–7 mm long, obtuse. Filaments 13–15 mm long, united in a slender column, free in upper ± 2 mm; anthers 5–6 mm long, often exceeding stigma lobes, yellow; pollen white to yellow. Ovary ± cylindric, 6–8 mm long, usually exserted; style branches ± 6 mm long, crests linear, 4–5 mm long. Capsules club-shaped, 9–11 mm long. Seeds angular-prismatic. Flowering time: December to March.
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