Spikes pendulous, terminal spike 8–11-flowered, lateral spikes 4–8-flowered; flowers somewhat crowded (bracts usually c. 2 internodes long); floral bracts 16–23 mm long, obovate, acute; veins many, coalescing to form a solid patch reaching up to three-quarters of the way up the bract, drying light-buff, or sometimes flecked with brown, or rarely wholly brown, margins and shoulders heavily flecked.
Flowers rose-to purple-pink, 20–29 mm long; perianth tube 6.5–10 mm long; tepals 12–19 × 5–8.5 mm.
Leaves several, the basal ones 550–900 × 6.5–12 mm, sheathing cauline leaves 3–4.
Plant single-stemmed or forming tufts of a few stems.
Stigmas reaching 2.5–6.5 mm below the tepal apices.
Stems 135–165 mm long, 2–5-branched, or more.
Corms 20–30 mm in diameter.
Anthers 6–6.5(7) mm long.