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Description:
Plants 200–600 mm high. Corm globose, 15–20 mm diam.; tunics of medium to coarsely textured fibres. Stem simple or with 1–3 straight, widely divergent branches. Leaves 3, all basal, lower 2 narrowly to broadly lanceolate, (3–)5–10 mm wide, usually ± half as long as stem, main vein and margins moderately thickened, uppermost leaf entirely sheathing, reaching to middle or upper third of stem. almost straight. Spike usually 3–6-flowered, lateral spikes 1–4-flowered; bracts membranous, translucent, outer 8–10 mm long, with 3 purple veins, shallowly 3-toothed, inner as long to slightly longer than outer, 2-veined, forked at apex. Flowers salver-shaped, pale to deep pink, tepals purple to blackish toward base, lightly sweet scented; perianth tube slightly curved and cylindric for 2–3 mm, widening abruptly into a cup ± 3 mm deep; tepals obovate, spreading at ± right angles to tube, subequal, (14–)18–22 × (6–)10–12 mm, inner slightly wider than outer. Filaments inserted at mouth of narrow part of tube, connivent, 5–6 mm long, ± black; anthers divergent, 6–7 mm long (before anthesis), black; pollen yellow. Style dividing opposite anther bases, black, branches 2–3 mm long. Flowering time: late August to mid September.
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