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Description:
Plants (100–)150–200 mm high. Corm globose, 9–12 mm diam.; tunics initially unbroken, soft and papery, becoming torn into narrow vertical strips, ultimately almost fibrous, accumulating with cataphylls as a fibrous collar around base. Stem ascending or trailing from cracks in steep rocks, unbranched. Leaves (2)3, lower 1 or 2 basal, linear, 1.5–3 mm wide, margins and main veins heavily thickened and raised into wings overarching blade surface, lowermost longest, reaching to between upper 1/3 of stem and base of spike, second basal leaf usually much shorter, sheathing in lower 1/2, uppermost leaf inserted on mid to upper part of stem, smaller than basal, sheathing for at least half its length, sometimes entirely. Spike (1–)2–6-flowered, flexuose; bracts subequal, outer pale sometimes purple toward apex, 8–11 mm long, inner membranous, narrower than outer, 2-keeled, forked in upper 1–2 mm. Flowers salver-shaped, pale pink, unscented; perianth tube cylindric, (16–)19–23 mm long; tepals subequal, ovoid-oblong, spreading, 12–15 × 4.5–5.5 mm. Filaments suberect, equal, ± 8 mm long, exserted ± 6 mm from tube; anthers ± 3.5 mm long, cream; pollen yellow. Style dividing at or beyond anther tips, ultimately exceeding anthers by ± 4 mm, branches ± 2 mm long. Capsules globose, 4–6 mm long. Seeds prismatic with ridged angles, ± 1.5 mm long. Flowering time: November to early December.
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