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Description
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Plants 0.9–1.8 m high, solitary or a few stems together in small tufts. Corm ± 30–40 mm diam. Stem with lowermost peduncle 45–135 mm long. Foliage leaves several to many, 500–900 × 4–9(–11) mm; reduced sheathing leaves 4 or 5. Spikes pendulous, terminal 4–8-flowered, laterals 4 to 7, each 2-5(6)-flowered; bracts elliptic-lanceolate to elliptic-obovate, acute, 23–34 × 10–12 mm, up to 2 internodes long, flecked brownish all over but more lightly toward margins but appearing brown, lateral veins ± 5 each side of main vein. Flowers ovoid, magenta-pink or deep purple-red; perianth tube mostly 10–14(–15.5) mm long; tepals 23–35(–39) × 10–19, suberect and cohering to weakly flared, not or scarcely spreading at the tips. Anthers (8–)10–11 mm long. Stigmas held 12–21 mm below top of perianth. Flowering time: mainly December to February.
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