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Description:
Plants 100–200 mm high. Corm ± globose, ± 10 mm diam.; tunics of coarse, black fibres. Stem flexuose, several-branched, minutely velvety, bearing attenuate, sheathing leaves 30–40 mm long. Foliage leaves 3, lowermost basal, remaining cauline, linear, ± falcate, channeled below, flat above and loosely coiled in upper half, 2–4 mm wide. Rhipidial spathes attenuate with dry apices, inner 25–50(–60) mm long, outer ± 1/2 as long. Flowers fugaceous, salmon-pink, all tepal limbs with yellow, darkly speckled nectar guides at bases, spreading, claws suberect, forming a shallow cup narrowly windowed between their bases, including base of filament column; outer tepals obovoid-oblong, 16–23 × ± 9 mm, claws ± 3 mm long, densely velvety 1 mm above bases; inner tepals smaller, obovate, 5–6 mm wide. Filaments united in a column 6 mm long, inflated above base, then gradually tapering to apex, densely velvety in bulbous part; anthers erect, contiguous, ± 2 mm long, shorter after dehiscence, yellow. Ovary ± ellipsoid, 6–7 mm long; style branches short, deeply forked, hidden by the anthers, apices emerging between anthers, crests absent. Capsules ± cylindric, 10–13 mm long. Seeds unknown. Chromosome number 2n = 12. Flowering time: August to mid September.
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