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Description:
Plants 250–350(–450) mm high. Corm globose-conic, 11–14 mm diam.; tunics of fine-to medium-textured, compacted fibers. Leaves 3 to 5, lower 2 or 3 basal, about 1/3 as long as stem, blades linear, 2–3(–4.5) mm wide, main veins and sometimes the margins lightly thickened, the upper leaves cauline and progressively shorter, sometimes uppermost entirely sheathing. Stem unbranched, c. 1.5 mm diam. at spike base. Spike (1–)2- to 3-flowered; bracts green, 25–40(–45) mm long, inner nearly equal or 2–4 mm shorter than outer. Flowers white or sometimes pale yellow, strongly fragrant; perianth tube slender, 80–120 mm long, expanding in upper 10 mm; tepals evidently subequal, nearly elliptic, dorsal probably horizontal, remaining tepals spreading, 25–30 mm long. Filaments c. 9 mm long, included in tube or barely exserted for c. 1 mm; anthers 8–9 mm long, bases sometimes within tube. Ovary 4–5 mm long; style dividing c. 5 mm beyond anther apices, branches c. 5 mm long. Capsules and seeds unknown. Flowering time; mostly December and January in Somalia and Eritrea, May and June in Ethiopia.
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