Plants 300-800 mm high. Stem leafy and much-branched, branches rotated in clockwise fashion. Leaves: basal (and juvenile) linear, diamond-shaped in cross section, thickened in midline, ± 8-10 mm wide, main vein hardly evident below thickened midline; cauline leaves falcate, channelled below, distally horizontal, main vein often not evident, arranged in a two-ranked spiral. Rhipidia 2-flowered; inner spathe 48-50 mm long, often inflated, outer 28-30 mm long, sheathing below, diverging in upper half, hooked at tips. Flowers on pedicels 17-20 mm long, dull maroon to purple or dark brown, usually with darker purple-maroon blotches, margins pale brown, claws usually maroon-speckled with white, putrid-or molasses-smelling, tepal claws broad, forming a wide cup, 7.5-8.0 mm deep, 13-18 mm wide at rim, nectaries pale green, heart-shaped, prominent, covering 1/3-1/2 of claw, limbs ± spreading; outer tepals 33-40 mm long, inner tepals 28-35 mm long, claws 9-10 mm long. Filaments united in a column 8-11 mm long, upper 1.5-2.5 mm free; anthers ± 3.5 mm long before anthesis, thecae parallel; pollen orange. Ovary ellipsoid, not beaked, included, 15-20 mm long; style branches ± 4.5 mm long, diverging, with prominently fringed arms; stigmas terminal on style arms. Capsules ellipsoid, 28-35 mm long, round at apex. Seeds angular, ± 5-sided, ± 3 mm long, facets slightly wrinkled, light brown, shiny.
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Cormous geophyte, 0.4-1 m tall, leafy and much branched, the branches rotated in clockwise fashion. Basal leaves (and of immature plants) linear, diamond-shaped in cross section with thickened midline, foliage leaves horizontal, channelled, without a central vein. Flowers maroon, purple or dark brown, usually with darker speckles, putrid smelling, tepals claws broad, forming a wide cup, nectaries prominent, anther lobes parallel. Capsule not beaked.
Like F. crispa but leaves and branches spirally 2-ranked, leaves thickened toward middle, and flowers maroon, purple or dark brown.
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