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Description:
Plants (500–)1 200–1 600 mm high. Corm depressed-globose, 35–70 mm diam.; tunics coarsely netted. Stem usually simple, or with 1 to 3 branches. Leaves 3 to several, lower ± basal but uppermost partly sheathing stem, ± half as long as spike, lanceolate, 8–24 mm wide, midrib and margins lightly to moderately thickened and hyaline; bract-like cauline leaves 2 or more, long and tightly sheathing. Spike 10 to 30-flowered; bracts green below, drying above and reddish to brown, (12–)14–20(–24) mm long, inner 2/3 to ± as long, acute to bifid for 1 mm. Flowers zygomorphic, pale pink to purple or rarely scarlet, sometimes faintly scented; perianth tube with lower part 12–20 mm long, usually exserted 2.5 mm from bracts, upper part ascending to nearly horizontal, sub-cylindric, 17–20(–24) mm long, ± 6 mm diam. at mouth; tepals obovate, 19–22(–25) × 8–12(–15) mm, widely spreading. Filaments unilateral, arcuate, 16–28 mm long, usually well exserted from tube; anthers 7–11 mm long, violet. Style dividing near middle of anthers, branches 5–6 mm long. Capsules narrowly obovoid, 12–15 mm long. Seeds elongate, 8–10 mm long, unequally winged. Flowering time: (October) November to January, rarely later.
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