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Description
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Plants 100–150(–200) mm high. Corm conical, 10–25 mm diam.; tunics of fine to coarse fibres. Stem suberect, simple or up to 3-branched. Leaves 6–8, lanceolate-falcate, 50–100 × (3–)5–10(–12) mm, acute or acuminate, margins undulate or crisped, cauline leaves smaller and often dry and bract-like. Spike sharply deflexed, horizontal, secund, densely 5–15-flowered; bracts small, dry and membranous, translucent or pale brown, lightly speckled in upper 1/2, outer 3–8 mm long, obtuse, acute or obscurely 3-toothed, inner slightly shorter, bifid. Flowers zygomorphic, suberect, white with red streaks in throat and small red or purple dot on lower 3 or only lower median tepal, unscented; perianth tube ± cylindric, curved outward above, (20–)25–30 mm long, widening gradually in upper 5 mm to ± 3 mm diam. and laterally compressed; tepals unequal, upper 3 largest, dorsal spreading and upper laterals reflexed, oblong-spathulate, 7–9 × 3–4 mm, lower 3 spreading, oblong, 6–8 × 2–3 mm, without calluses. Filaments unilateral and arcuate, 5–7 mm long, enclosed by upper part of gullet, scarcely exserted; anthers ± 3 mm long, lilac; pollen purple. Style dividing at or shortly beyond anther apices, branches 1.5–2 mm long. Flowering time: September.
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