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Description:
Plants solitary, simple or rarely 1-branched, 300–700 mm high, with membranous cataphylls becoming fibrous above. Corm not known. Leaves 2, lower basal and larger, upper cauline, up to 7 mm wide, channelled, margins slightly thickened and hyaline, as long as, or slightly exceeding rhipidia. Rhipidia often inflexed; spathes green with dry upper margins, inner 40–60 mm long, outer ca. 1/2 as long. Flowers blue mauve with tepals fading to white distally; outer tepals 30–35 mm long, limbs 20–25 mm, fully reflexed when open; inner tepals somewhat smaller, also reflexed. Filaments up to 8 mm long, united in lower 5 mm; anthers 6 mm long. Ovary 5–7 mm long; style branches ca. 8 mm long, very broad and diverging, crests 5–7 mm. Capsules and seeds unknown. Flowering time: January to February in the west, May in the east.
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