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Description:
Plants 280–400 mm high. Corm ovoid, ± 10 mm diam.; tunics of coarse, light brown fibres, with collar of ± fine fibres around base. Stem lightly flexuose, sticky below nodes for half internode length, cauline sheathing leaves 24–35 mm long, green, becoming dry and light brown above, ± acute; bearing 2 or 3 short branches at upper 3 or 4 nodes, lowermost sometimes also branched. Foliage leaves usually 2, lowermost inserted below ground, upper inserted at first aerial node, blades channeled, ± 2 mm wide, exceeding stem, arching outward or trailing distally. Rhipidial spathes green, with dry, brown tips, 18–22 mm long, inner slightly shorter than outer. Flowers fugaceous, pale creamy yellow, outer tepal limbs with pale yellow mark at bases, unscented, tepal claws ascending, forming a cup enclosing filament bases; tepals with limbs initially spreading later reflexed to ± 30º, outer 18–20 × 7.5–8.5 mm, claws ± 2 mm long, ± erect, limbs ovate, obtuse; inner slightly shorter, ± 18 × 7 mm. Filaments ± 5 mm long, free but parallel and connivent below forming slender column, diverging in upper 1 mm; anthers ± 3 mm long, erect, contiguous, white; pollen white. Ovary narrowly ovoid, ± 3 mm long, exserted; style dividing shortly below base of anthers into 3 filiform arms, each stigmatic apically and extended between filaments, ± 4 mm long. Capsules and seeds unknown. Flowering time: in mid to late September, probably into mid October; opening ± 14:00 and wilting shortly after nightfall.
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