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Description:
Plant small, inconspicuous, mostly to 30 mm high. Corm 8–12 mm diam.; tunics fibrous with prominent vertical ribs. Stem underground at flowering. Leaves in a basal cluster, spreading to ± prostrate, linear, channelled, 30–60 × ± 3 mm, margins hyaline, sparsely ciliate. Rhipidial spathes hardy distinct from leaves, with 2–4 flowers per plant. Flowers fugaceous, salver-shaped with tepals cupped below, white with yellow cup; perianth tube 10–13 mm long; tepals subequal, obovate, spreading in upper half, 9–12 × 3–4 mm. Filaments united in ± cylindric column ± 4 mm long; anthers sessile, erect, ± 1.5 mm long. Ovary ovoid, ± 3 mm long; style slender, dividing ± opposite lower 1/3 to middle of anthers, branches deeply and irregularly fringed, tangled in anthers. Capsules and seeds unknown. Chromosome number 2n = 18. Flowering time: July to early September; flowers open ± 13:00 and collapse ± 15:30.
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