An acaulescent herb. Rootstock of many fusiform tubers. Leaves radicle, usually shorter than, rarely as long as the pedicels, 9-19 cm long, terete (linear in dried specimens and then 1-2 x 5 mm broad), acute, fleshy, glabrous. Peduncle 10-28 cm long, terete, furrowed, glabrous. Inflorescence racemose, 2-6-flowered, up to 35 cm long. Bracts 2-7.5 mm long, 2 mm broad, ovate, acuminate, acute, membranous, glabrous. Pedicels 5.5-6.5 mm long, terete, glabrous, articulated with the flower at the apex; anthers 1 mm. long, subglobose. Ovary 1.5 mm long, 1 mm broad, oblong in outline, sparsely glandular; style 4-5 mm long, glabrous; stigma capitate. Perianth yellow within; the three outer segments brown beneath with a darker midrib; the three inner with a brown midrib.
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