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Description:
Plants 400–650 mm high. Corm 20–30 mm diam.; tunics of wiry, pale, mealy fibres. Stem suberect, sometimes with 1 or more long branches from near base and with short, subsessile lateral branches; upper nodes with sheathing leaves ± as long as spathes. Foliage leaves 2, linear, much longer than stem, suberect, trailing distally, channelled, 6–8 mm wide, margins straight. Rhipidial spathes becoming membranous with fine longitudinal veins, inner 45–60 mm long, outer slightly shorter. Flowers fugaceous, violet, outer tepal limbs with yellow nectar guides at bases, half reflexed; outer tepals 26–29 × 10 mm, claws diverging, ± 10 mm long, inner tepals narrowly lanceolate, suberect, 22–26 × 5 mm. Filaments 5.0–6.5 mm long, united in lower 1/3 to 1/2; anthers 7–8 mm long, violet, pollen yellow. Ovary ± cylindric, 40–55 mm long, fertile in lower ± 12 mm; style branches 9–12 mm long, diverging, crests 7–9 mm long. Capsules and seeds unknown. Chromosome number 2n = 12. Flowering time: October to mid November; opening 16:00–16:30, collapsing after 19:00.
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