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Description:
Plants (150–)350–800 mm high. Corm depressed-globose, 18–25 mm diam.; tunics finely netted. Stem simple or with 2 to 4 short, erect branches. Leaves ± 4, lower 3 ± basal, upper leaves partly sheathing stem, ± half as long as spike, narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, 12–18 mm wide, midrib and margins thickened and hyaline; bract-like cauline leaves 2, sheathing, 60–90 mm long. Spike (3)9 to 14-flowered; bracts green, often reddish above, dry and brown on upper margins for ± 1 mm, (10–)14–18 mm long, inner 2/3 to as long, forked apically for 2–4 mm. Flowers zygomorphic, orange or salmon pink, tepals with darker median streak in lower midline; perianth tube with lower part 15–18 mm long, emerging up to 10 mm from bracts, upper part ascending, sub-cylindric, 16–20 mm long, ± 5 mm diam. at mouth; tepals oblanceolate, 20–22 × 9–11 mm, all spreading widel. Filaments unilateral and arcuate, 25–33 mm long, well exserted from tube; anthers ± 7 mm long, violet. Style dividing near middle of anthers, branches ± 5 mm long. Capsules oblong-fusiform, 20–24 × 5–6 mm. Seeds nearly linear, 10–12 × 1.5–2.0 mm, 2-winged. Flowering time: (September) October to early December.
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