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Description
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Plants 100–150(–200) mm high. Corm flattened bell-shaped, 15–20 mm diam., tunics woody, basal rim irregularly fringed and scalloped. Stem subterranean or aerial and exserted up to 80 mm. Leaves 3 to 5, lower 2 basal, subterete and 4-grooved, 1.2–2.0 mm diam., glabrous or ciliolate on rib margins. Peduncles up to 3, subterete, suberect in fruit; outer bracts green, often flushed purple, with narrow, colourless membranous margins,15–28 mm long, finely striate (4 veins/mm), inner bracts with narrow, colourless membranous margins. Flowers bright yellow with a darker yellow cup, inner tepals with narrow dark median line and sometimes diffuse dark zone in throat, outer tepals with dark median blotch in throat, streaked with reddish longitudinal bands on reverse; perianth tube funnel-shaped, ± 5 mm long; tepals oblanceolate, 25–35 × 6–10 mm. Filaments inserted near base of tube, 5–6 mm long, densely pilose below; anthers 6–7 mm long, yellow. Style dividing opposite middle of anthers, branches 2–3 mm long, divided for half their length. Capsules oblong-ovoid, ± 8 mm long. Flowering time: July (Aug.).
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