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Description:
Plants 100–160 mm high. Corm ± ovoid, 7–9 mm diam., asymmetric; tunics woody, imbricate, dark brown. Stem slender, unbranched, with short scale-like leaf in upper fourth. Leaves 3, lower 2 ± basal, blades plane, unusually short and ± obtuse, 12–20 × 4–8 mm, upper leaf sheathing lower 1/2 to 2/3 of stem, 40–80 mm long, slightly inflated. Spike 1–5-flowered; bracts green below, pale and membranous distally, 8–12 mm long. Flowers crepuscular, ± rotate, pale blue-purple, pale in throat and tube, outer tepals with broad purple streak on reverse; perianth tube straight, ± 7 mm long, cylindric, wider near apex; tepals subequal, narrowly ovate, 11–13 × ± 5 mm, spreading. Filaments weakly diverging, ± 3 mm long; anthers 5.5–6.0 mm long, ?yellow; pollen ?yellow. Style branches ± 7 mm long, ascending, ultimately reaching to ± middle of anthers in closed flower. Flowering time: September and probably also late August.
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