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Description:
Plants mostly small, 80–250 mm high. Corms 7–10 mm diam.; tunics of coarse, wiry black fibres. Stem flexed outward above sheath of foliage leaf above each sheathing leaf, usually branched, sometimes repeatedly, with attenuate sheathing leaves 15–20(–30) mm long at upper nodes. Foliage leaf solitary, inserted well above ground, linear, channelled to ± flat, exceeding stem, 2–4 mm wide. Rhipidial spathes attenuate, inner 30–50 mm long, outer ± half as long. Flowers fugaceous, salmon pink, all tepal limbs with yellow nectar guides at bases, spreading, claws erect, forming a shallow cup; outer tepals obovate to pandurate, 18–22 × 6–9 mm, claws ± 4 mm long, tapering to narrow base, inner tepals ± as long as outer, 5–6 mm wide. Filaments united in a slender, cylindric column 6–8 mm long, long-papillate in lower 1/2; anthers 2.5–3.0 mm long, erect, contiguous, collapsing after anthesis, then ± 2 mm long. Ovary ± cylindric, 5–6 mm long, exserted; style branches concealed by anthers, short, bifurcate, stigmatic at tips, apices of style branches emerging between anthers, crests lacking. Capsules ellipsoid, 8–10 mm long. Seeds angular. Chromosome number 2n = 12. Flowering time: late July to early September.
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