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Description:
Plants 250–500 mm high, solitary, with lacerated cataphylls. Corm 10–15 mm diam.; tunics of fine brown netted fibers. Stem simple, bearing a solitary (occasionally 2) sheathing leaf 60–90 mm long. Foliage leaf solitary, short, 50–200 mm long, free at apex or entirely sheathing and bract-like, inserted above ground level in lower 1/2 of stem, channeled. Rhipidia solitary; spathes green with brown attenuate tips, inner 75–120 mm long, outer ca. 2/3 as long. Flowers yellow; outer tepals 50–70 mm long, limbs 30–40 mm long, outspread, inner tepals 40–50 mm long, initally erect. Filaments 10–12 mm long, free and diverging in upper 1/3; anthers 9–16 mm long. Ovary 10–13 mm long; style branches 12–15 mm long, crests up to 15 mm long. Capsules and seeds unknown. Flowering time: December to January.
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