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Description:
Plants100–300 mm high. Corm 10–15 mm diam.; tunics of stiff, dark, coarse fibres covered by mealy substance. Stem with one main axis and few to several ± sessile, lateral branches; sheathing leaves 40–55 mm long. Foliage leaves 2, linear, channelled, ± erect or trailing, longer than stem. Rhipidial spathes membranous with prominent veins, ± dry at flowering, attenuate, inner 40–60 mm long, outer slightly shorter. Flowers fugaceous, white, outer tepal limbs with small, yellow nectar guides at bases, ultimately ± half reflexed; outer tepals lanceolate. 24–27 × 10–12 mm, claws suberect, 10–12 mm long, inner tepals20–25 × 3–5 mm, erect. Filaments 5–6 mm long, united in lower 1/2 to 1/3; anthers5–6 mm. Ovary ± cylindric, included, ± 50 mm long, fertile in lower 10 mm; style branches7–11 mm long, ascending, crests erect, 11–13 mm long. Capsules and seeds not known. Chromosome number 2n = 12. Flowering time. September and October.
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