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Description:
Plants 500–800 mm high. Corm sub-globose, 40–55 mm diam.; tunics coarsely netted. Stem simple. Leaves 3 or 4, basal, dry and withered at flowering, ± as long as spike, linear, 4–10 mm wide, midrib and margins lightly thickened; bract-like cauline leaves several, sheathing, dry at flowering. Spike laxly up to 10-flowered; bracts herbaceous and green, becoming dry and brownish apically, attenuatea, 15–24 mm long, inner ± 2/3 to as long, deeply forked ± halfway. Flowers zygomorphic, red; perianth tube with lower part 14–20 mm long, exserted 5–7 mm from bracts, upper part horizontal, sub-cylindric, ± 25 mm long, ± 6 mm diam. at mouth; tepals oblanceolate, 25–30 × 8–12 mm, all widely spreading or dorsal hooded. Filaments unilateral, arcuate, 30–35 mm long, well exserted from tube; anthers 9–12 mm long, violet. Style dividing near middle of anthers, branches 6–7 mm long. Capsules narowly obovoid, (18–)25–30 × 10–15 mm. Seeds 8–10 × 4–5 mm, with broad distal wing. Flowering time: March to July.
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