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Description:
Plants 200–350 mm high, with cataphylls green or sometimes obscurely speckled with purple. Corm ± globose, 18–24 mm diam.; tunics finely fibrous. Stem erect or inclined, lightly flexed outward above sheaths of upper 2 leaves, unbranched. Leaves 3, lowermost basal and reaching to ± base of spike, linear-lanceolate, 6–8 mm wide, min vein evident but only lightly thickened, margins narrowly hyaline, cauline leaves progressively smaller, usually overlapping. Spike lightly inclined, ± straight, 2–5-flowered; bracts green or flushed dull purple, outer 40–50(–60) mm long, inner shorter, usually minutely forked. Flowers creamy pink to pale salmon, lower 3 tepals with long pale median streak edged in dark pink to red, unscented; perianth tube 50–70 mm long and cylindric in lower 40–50 mm, flared in upper 10–20 mm; tepals lanceolate, dorsal largest, 23 × 15–16 mm, inclined nearly horizontally over stamens, upper laterals 22–23 × 9 mm, curving outward distally, lower 3 tepals joined to upper laterals for ± 3 mm, 15–17 × 7–8 mm. Filaments ± 20 mm long, exserted ± 2 mm from tube; anthers ± 9 mm long, purple; pollen lilac. Style arching over stamens, dividing just beyond anther apices, branches ± 4 mm long. Capsules ovoid [mature capsules not seen]. Seeds ovate, 5.5–6.5 mm, broadly and evenly winged. Flowering time: March and April.
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