Plant a perennial herb. Tuber 30-40 mm diameter and 15-20 mm thick. Stem single to few, 150-200 mm long, branching just above ground to give 3-6 stems, 1-1.5 mm in diameter, glabrous green, internodes 10-60 mm long with the longest internodes at apex. Leaves erect, sessile, linear, 20-70 x 1-2 mm, glabrous, green except for a reddish tinge at the axil, very slightly recurved at margins. Flowers 1-2 axillary to and produced from the 6th or 7th node. Pedicels slender, glabrous, 5-10 mm long and reddish-brown. Calyx lobes erect, 4 x 0.3 mm at base, linear-lanceolate and glabrous. Corolla at first with round reddish-brown bulb and long reddish-brown, straight, terete beak. Corolla at dehiscence being semidecumbent, bulb being a whitish-green colour on the outside and red within, 4-5 x 3 mm with a narrowing to 2.5-3 mm at the base of the corolla lobes, lobes yellow-green, spreading, 18-20 x 0.5-0.75 mm, straight with margins recurved, glabrous. Corona 3 mm diameter and 1 mm high. Outer corona appendages 0.6 mm at base and 0.5 mm at apex, orange-mottled red-brown, pouch-like and upper part beak-shaped. Inner corona appendages 0.6 mm at base thickened with yellow-green apex 0.2 mm across, incumbent on the backs of the others, glabrous. Follicles paired, reddish-grey, 90-100 x 1.5 mm.
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