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Perennial geophyte, up to 0.3 m high. Leaves green at flowering, linear, 3-20 mm wide, channelled, midrib slightly thickened. Flowers 4-9, suberect to spreading; perianth 50-90 mm long, bright coral-red, tube expanding evenly from base, 3 upper segments hooded, 2 lateral spreading and lower decurved; 3 upper stamens arched against upper lip, 3 lower spreading; style slightly curved; stigma minutely tricuspidate. Flowering time Jan.
Bulbous geophyte to 30 cm, bulbilliferous. Leaves 2-7, green at flowering, linear. Flowers 4-9, suberect to spreading, narrowly funnel-shaped, coral-red, fleshy, segments oblong, 3 upper hooded, 2 lateral spreading, lower decurved, becoming more zygomorphic with age, style subcapitate, arched upwards.
