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Description:
Plants 250–450 mm high. Corm 9–18 mm diam., tunics of firm, medium-textured, netted fibres. Stem usually unbranched or with a single short branch. Leaves 2, lower 1 ± basal, lanceolate, (4–)6–10 mm wide, conspicuously 3-veined, main vein moderately thickened, secondary veins slightly less so, margins not or barely thickened, upper leaf sheathing stem in lower 1/2. Spike flexuose, 5–12-flowered; bracts membranous, translucent, sometimes turning rusty brown in upper 1/3, outer 5–6 mm long, with prominent main vein and up to 6 secondary veins, 1-toothed or ± fringed, inner ± as long as outer, 2-veined and 2-toothed. Flowers rotate, deep rose pink, unscented; perianth tube filiform, 4–5 mm long, clasping style; tepals spreading, ovate-elliptic, obtuse to retuse, 12–15 × 6–8 mm. Filaments inserted at mouth of tube, filiform, 2–4 mm long, ± white; anthers erect, suborbicular, ± 2 mm long, yellow, thecae acute, recurved at base, dehiscing almost to apex. Style dividing at base of filaments, branches falcate, 2.5–3.0 mm long, tubular-filiform, pale pink. Flowering time: September.
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