Plants 60-150 mm high, ± acaulescent. Stem short, often mostly subterranean, simple occasionally or with 1 or 2 branches, velvety hairy. Leaves lanceolate, pleated, softly hairy. Spike congested, erect, 2-to 8-flowered; bracts green with dry rust-coloured tips, 18-40 mm long, inner shorter than outer, margins hyaline, divided to base. Flowers actinomorphic, white or pale blue to mauve (rarely mauve-pink) with white at tepal bases and throat edged in darker blue, lightly acrid-or violet-scented; perianth tube 18-25(-30) mm long, erect, widening at throat; tepals subequal, 20-30 x 8-13 mm. Stamens symmetrically arranged; filaments erect, surrounding style, 3.5-6.0 mm long; anthers 4-6 mm long, divergent, pale blue, mauve, or whitish, linear or connective wider toward base. Ovary densely hairy; style dividing opposite base or lower 1/3 of anthers, branches filiform ± 4 mm long, tips hardly expanded.
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Acaulescent, cormous geophyte, 3-8 cm. Leaves lanceolate, hairy. Flowers actinomorphic, pale blue to mauve, white in centre, tube filiform, inner bracts divided to base, ovary hairy.
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