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Description:
Plants up to 400 mm high, solitary or in small clumps. Corm ± 18 mm diam.; tunics of coarse, brown fibres. Stem sheathed below by dark brown to black, fairly rigid vertical fibres often reaching above ground, unbranched, enclosed by 3 overlapping sheathing leaves 70–100 mm long. Foliage leaf solitary, ultimately exceeding stem, channelled to flat, 4–10 mm wide. Rhipidial spathes green, slightly inflated, inner 90–110 mm long, outer ± 2/3 as long. Flowers fugaceous, pale yellow to ± white, outer tepal limbs with yellow nectar guides at bases, laxly spreading; outer tepals 55–65 × 22 mm, limbs up to 40 mm long, acute; inner tepals lanceolate, up to 50 × 12–15 mm long, ± retuse, limbs laxly spreading. Filaments 10–11 mm long, united in lower 2/3; anthers ± 10 mm long, yellow. Ovary 12–15 mm long; style branches ± 15 mm, crests ± 7 mm long. Capsules and seeds unknown. Flowering time: August to early November.
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