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Perennial herb. Tuber red, up to about 50 mm diam., slightly compressed from above and below. Stems several, up to 100 mm tall, rarely rebranched, minutely pubescent or glabrescent. Leaves ± elliptic-lanceolate, up to 30 x 7 mm, sessile or shortly petiolate, mostly glabrous, sometimes minutely ciliate. Flowers 2-3 together, the oldest uppermost, opening in succession; pedicels 5-10 mm long. Sepals ± lanceolate, 2.5 mm long. Corolla funnel-shaped, 8 mm long, 4 mm diam. at mouth, yellowish green or cream, rarely white or maroon; tube 3 mm long; lobes ovate-triangular, 5 mm long, slightly spreading, slightly fleshy. Corona arising from near base of staminal column, cupular, 1 mm high, twice as high as staminal column, with margin pentagonal, shallowly 10-notched or subentire and with few long hairs within; inner lobes arising halfway down tube, linear-oblong, incumbent on backs of filaments. Pollinia somewhat pyriform, compressed, with translucent inner margin, about 0.25 mm long; connectives short; carrier wingless.
Perennial herb, up to 150 mm tall. Corolla lobes oblong-lanceolate, smooth on inner face. Corona cupular, overtopping staminal column, inner corona lobes subobsolete, cushion-like at base of anthers. Flowers green, purple-tinged.
A herb. It keeps growing from year to year. It can have a tuberous root. The stems are twining and succulent. The leaves are succulent and can be reduced to small scaled.
