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Description:
Plants 900–1 800 mm high. Corm depressed-globose, 30–50 mm diam.; tunics coarsely netted. Stem with up to 4 short, suberect branches. Leaves 5 to 8, lower ± basal, uppermost leaf partly sheathing stem, ± 1/3 as long as spike, lanceolate, (15–)20–40 mm wide, midrib and margins lightly to moderately thickened and hyaline; bract-like cauline leaves 1 or 2, sheathing. Spike 25 to 40-flowered; bracts herbaceous and usually reddish, becoming dry and brownish above, 10–18(–25) mm long, acute to attenuate, inner 2/3 to as long, deeply forked apically for 3–6 mm. Flowers zygomorphic, pink or purple to orange-red or orange, sometimes with a paler tube and tepals, then darker on the reverse; perianth tube with lower part (20–)25–30 mm long, usually well exserted from bracts for up to 20 mm, upper part horizontal to drooping, sub-cylindric, ± 22–26 mm long, 6–8 mm diam. at mouth; tepals oblanceolate, 24–33 × 9–13 mm, all suberect and weakly cupped. Filaments unilateral, arcuate, 38–45 mm long, well exserted from tube; anthers 9–12 mm long, violet. Style dividing between upper 1/3 and apex of anthers, branches ± 4.5 mm long. Capsules obconic, tapering above, 18–20 × 5–6mm. Seeds elongate-angular, 9–12 mm long, with well-developed distal wing and rudimentary proximal wing. Flowering time: October to early January(February).
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