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Description:
Plants 200–450 mm high. Corm globose, 15–20 mm diam.; tunics of coarse, pale straw-colored, netted fibres. Stem straight or flexed at nodes, arching outward below inflorescence, 2 or 3 internodes long, sheathing leaf 45–55 mm long, green with ± dry, attenuate apex, simple or with 1(2) branches. Foliage leaf solitary, linear, channeled, arching outward, overtopping the stem and often dry distally, mostly 2.5–3.5 mm wide, ± basal. Rhipidial spathes green with dry attenuate apices, inner 45–65 mm long, outer ± 2/3 as long. Flowers long-lived, white or cream, darkly veined on reverse of tepals, outer tepal limbs with a yellow or orange nectar guide outlined in dark purple at bases, claws mostly yellow, inner tepals each with a broad, dark purple-brown central band and pinkish edge, tepal limbs spreading ± horizontally or the tips curving upward, claws ascending, forming a cup ± 12 mm wide at mouth, enclosing filament column and anther bases; outer tepals larger than inner, limbs obovate, (15–)18–20 × 14–19 mm, claws ± 10 mm long, smooth or papillate; inner tepal limbs 8–15 × 5–11 mm. Filaments 4–5 mm long, united almost to apices in a smooth, cylindric column, free in upper 0.5–1.0 mm, greenish to dark purple; anthers ± 6 mm long, purple; pollen orange. Ovary oblong–3-lobed, 7–12 mm long, exserted; style branches 6–7 × ± 3 mm, ascending, yellow to pink, crests triangular, uniformly salmon pink, ± erect, 2.5–4.0 mm long. Capsules ± ovoid-ellipsoid, 16–18 mm long. Seeds unknown. Chromosome number unknown. Flowering late August and September, rarely early October.
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