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Description:
Plants solitary, unbranched, 50-70 cm high. Corm ca. 1.5 cm diam.; tunics of pale fine to medium fibers. Prophylls brown, soft textured and ir-regularly broken to fibrous. Stem unbranched, bearing 4 or 5 green sheathing leaves, usually overlapping 60–100 mm long. Leaf solitary, linear, basal, canaliculate, to 7 mm wide, much exceeding the inflorescence. Rhipidia solitary; spathes green with dry acute tips, inner 90–130 mm long, outer ca. 2/3 as long. Flowers blue violet with pale yellow to white nectar guides; outer tepals 57–80 mm long, limbs as long or slightly longer than claws, 30–45 mm long; inner tepals 55–75 mm long, lanceolate, erect. Filaments 13–17 mm long, free in upper 1./2 to 1/3; anthers 12–15 mm long. Ovary ca. 20 mm long, often enclosed in spathes; style branches ca. 25 mm long, crests up to 20 mm. Capsules ca. 30 mm long; seeds flattened, ? triangular. Chromosome number 2n = 12. Flowering time: (mid February) March to early July.
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