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Description:
Plants 200–500 mm high. Corm sub-globose, 20–30 mm diam.; tunics coarsely netted. Stem usually simple. Leaves 3 to 5, lower 2 to 4 basal, upper leaf partly or entirely sheathing stem, reaching to base of spike or longer, linear to narrowly lanceolate, 2–8 mm wide, midrib lightly thickened but margins not thickenend; bract-like cauline leaves 1 to 3, progessivley shorter, sheathing. Spike 2 to 5(10) -flowered; bracts herbaceous, green or flushed red, 20–40 mm long, inner ± as long or slightly longer, minutely forked apically. Flowers zygomorphic, bright red to pale orange, often translucent; perianth tube with lower part 18–22 mm long, not exserted from bracts, upper part horizontal, widening abruptly, sub-cylindric, 20–25 mm long, slightly compressed, oblique, up to 11 mm diam. at mouth; tepals lanceolate, acute, 30–35 × 7–12 mm, upper tepals connate ± 3 mm beyond lower, dorsal tepal hooded, upper laterals weakly spreading and lower tepals strongly recurved. Filaments unilateral and arcuate, 30–40 mm long, well exserted from tube; anthers 9–11 mm long, yellow or violet. Style dividing near anther apices, branches 5–6 mm long. Capsules large, obovoid to subglobose, 25–30 × 20–30 mm. Seeds 9–12 × 4 mm, with large pale wing, sometimes vestigial proximally. Flowering time: (July) August to October.
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