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Description:
Plants 250–500 mm high. Corm sub-globose, 14–20 mm diam.; tunics finely netted. Stem simple. Leaves usually 2, lower 1 basal, sometimes burned and apparently lacking, upper leaf partly sheathing stem, ± half as long as spike, linear to narrowly lanceolate, 2.5–6.0(–9.0) mm wide, midrib and margins lightly thickened and hyaline; bract-like cauline leaves 2 to 4, short, green, sheathing, sometimes overlapping. Spike 2 to 7-flowered; bracts green below, dry and brownish apically, 10–16 mm long, inner ± 2/3 as long, bifid apically. Flowers zygomorphic, orange; perianth tube with lower part 8–12 mm long, included or shortly emerging from bracts, upper part horizontal, tubular or narrowly flared, 10–12 mm long, ± 5 mm diam. at mouth; tepals obovate, 18–20 × 7–10 mm, all somewhat spreading. Filaments unilateral, arcuate, ± 10 mm long, not or barely exserted from tube; anthers 7–9 mm long, white. Style dividing shortly beyond anther apices, branches 2–4 mm long. Capsules obovoid, 8–10 mm long. Seeds elongate-angular, to 4.5 mm long, distal end shortly winged. Flowering time: early July to mid October.
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