Plants 70-120(-180) mm high, usually ± acaulescent. Stem with 2 to 4 short, subequal branches borne close to ground. Leaves overlapping to form a tight fan, sheaths completely enclosing stem and much exceeding blades, blades oblong, 7-15 x 5-7(-10) mm, obtuse or acute, often hooked at tips; margins thickened especially abaxially, thickenings often crenate to slightly crisped. Rhipidia 2-flowered; inner spathe mostly 45-55 mm long, outer ± 2/3 as long, sheathing in lower 2/3, arching outward distally. Flowers on pedicels 15-23 mm long; pale to watery yellow with darker yellow to brown or orange margins, nectaries small, at base of tepals, claws forming a narrow cup, ± 12 mm deep, ± 7 mm wide at rim, faintly sweet-scented; outer tepals 32-40 x ± 9 mm, attenuate, tips slightly coiled, claws slender, 10-13 mm long, inner tepals 30-37 mm long. Filaments united in column ± 10 mm long, free in upper ± 1 mm; anther thecae divergent, ± 2.5 mm long, shorter after dehiscence; pollen orange. Ovary ellipsoid, (15-)18-25 mm long, with beak 8-12 mm long; style branches ± 1.5 mm long, diverging into prominently fringed arms, ± 1.5 mm long; stigmas on small lobes below tips of style arms and arching over anthers. Capsules ovoid, 15-25 mm long. Seeds angular, irregularly 5-or 6-sided, ± 3 mm diam., brown, shiny.
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Cormous geophyte, 70-200 mm tall, unbranched or with a few short branches. Leaves overlapping in a tight fan, the sheaths enclosing the stem, blades oblong, obtuse, shorter than the sheaths. Flowers pale to greenish yellow with darker margins, faintly sweet-scented, tepals attenuate and coiled, claws slender, forming a narrow cup, nectaries basal, anther lobes divergent. Capsule beaked.
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