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Description:
Plants 150–300(–450) mm high. Corm depressed-globose, 18–40 mm diam.; tunics coarsely netted. Stem simple or rarely with 1 or 2 suberect branches. Leaves 4 to 6, lower 3 or 4 ± basal, uppermost leaf partly or entirely sheathing stem, ± half as long or as long as spike, linear to linear-lanceolate, 2–8 mm wide, midrib and margins lightly thickened and hyaline; bract-like cauline leaves 2 or more, sheathing. Spike 3 to 6-flowered; bracts herbaceous and green, dry and brownish apically, 20–25 mm long, inner ± as long as or slightly longer or shorter, barely forked apically. Flowers zygomorphic, dull to bright scarlet, purple or translucent pink, tepals usually with dark median line; perianth tube with lower part 20–24 mm long, emerging shortly from bracts, upper part ascending to horizontal, sub-cylindric, 18–24 mm long, 5–6 mm diam. at mouth; tepals obovate, 16–23 × 8–12 mm, all widely spreading or dorsal somewhat hooded. Filaments unilateral, arcuate, 25–30 mm long, well exserted from tube; anthers 5–8 mm long, violet. Style dividing between middle and apex of anthers, branches ± 5 mm long. Capsules large, often somewhat inflated, narrowly obovoid-ellipsoid, 20–25 × 10–14 mm. Seeds 8–12 mm long, either 2-winged or with large asymmetrical circumferential wing. Flowering time: August to November.
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