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Description:
Plants 400–600 mm high. Corm sub-globose, 25–35 mm diam.; tunics finely to coarsely netted. Stem erect, simple or with 1 or 2 short branches. Leaves 2 to 4, lower 1 to 3 basal, reaching to ± base of spike, linear to narrowly lanceolate, 5–10(–14) mm wide, midrib and margins moderately or sometimes heavily thickened and hyaline, uppermost sheathing lower half of stem; bract-like cauline leaves 2 or more, overlapping. Spike (6)10 to 20-flowered; bracts green below but dry and brown in upper half or throughout, 1 to 1.5(2) internodes long and usually shortly overlapping or somewhat lax, (10–)12–15 mm long, inner somewhat shorter, forked apically for 2–4 mm. Flowers zygomorphic, bright pink or purplish pink; perianth tube with lower part 10–12 long, usually included in bracts, upper part ascending, funnel-shaped, 6–8 mm long; tepals suberect, oblanceolate, 16–20 × 7–9 mm. Filaments unilateral and arcuate, 9–14 mm long, shortly exserted from tube; anthers 6–8 mm long, purple or pale pinkish. Style arching over stamens, dividing near apex of anthers, branches ± 3.5 mm long. Capsules oboboid, 9–11 mm long. Seeds angular with pronounced proximal and distal ridges, 5–6 × 1.5 mm. Flowering time: November to January (rarely later).
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