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Description:
Plants 300–700 mm high. Corm 10–16 mm diam.; the tunics membranous, becoming fibrous, fibers mostly vertical. Leaves 5 or 6, lower longest and reaching base of the spike, after flowering reaching spike apices, linear, 2–5 mm wide, tmargins and main veins lightly thickened, upper leaves shorter and narrower, mostly sheathing but with blades developed, sheaths imbricate and enveloping stem almost to first flower. Stem erect, rarely with one short branch, 2–3 mm diam. at spike base. Spike 2- to 4(–7)-flowered, erect; bracts initially green, becoming membranous and dry above, 20–25(–30) mm long, attenuate, inner about 2/3 as long as outer. Flowers pale salmon pink, tepals darker in midline; perianth tube c. 12 mm long, curving outward and widening above; tepals subequal, 16–18 mm long, often shorter when dry, narrowly lanceolate, straight and directed forward. Filaments 11–12 mm long, exserted c. 3 mm from tube; anthers c. 6 mm long, yellow, with short apiculi c. 0.5 mm long. Ovary ellipsoid, c. 4 mm long; style arching over tstamens, dividing opposite the middle of anthers, branches c. 3 mm long, not reaching anther apices. Capsules ellipsoid, 17–22 mm long; seeds c. 6 x 4 mm, broadly winged. Flowering time: September to mid November.
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