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Perennial herb, up to 0.7 m high, lax. Stem with gummy areas below each cyme. Corm depressed globose. Leaves linear to narrowly lanceolate, tapering gradually to an acuminate tip. Ovary 5-7 mm long, club-shaped or ellipsoid. Flowers 30-40 mm long, exserted, brown-maroon or deep purple, often spotted and mottled with yellow and with yellow or greenish yellow, narrow margins, or cream or yellow with brown or purple spots and blotches.
An erect herb. It grows 90 cm high. It has a corm or bulb. Several corms or bulbs often grow on top of one another. It does not have a stem. The corm is brown and 1-4 cm across. The leaves are narrow and 4-8 mm wide. There are several flowers on a stalk. The flowers are brown, red or purple. They can be spotted. The fruit is a capsule 12-20 mm long. The seeds are shiny and brown. They are 5 mm across. They have an irregular coat.
Flowers brown, maroon, purple or yellow, usually spotted and mottled with contrasting colour, faintly scented: tepals lanceolate, the outer 28–35 mm long, the inner 25–28 mm long, the claws forming a wide cup c. 10 mm deep and 15 mm in diameter at the rim, limbs horizontal or recurved, the margins crisped.
Foliage leaves several (sometimes short or not developed at flowering time), usually about half as long as the stems, 4–8 mm wide, linear to narrowly lanceolate, decreasing in size above.
Rhipidia several, solitary on the branches, 2–6-flowered; outer spathes 15–25(30) mm long, obtuse to acute, inner spathes 30–45(50) mm long.
Filaments 10–13 mm long, united in the lower 8–10 mm, anthers 5 mm long, shrinking after anthesis to 2.5 mm long.
Stem laxly and often repeatedly branched, sticky below the nodes.
Ovary 5–7 mm long; style c. 10 mm long, the branches 4 mm long.
Corm brown, 10–40 mm in diameter, 2–4 internodes in length.
Capsules 12–20(25) mm long, globose-obovoid.
Plants (20)40–70(90) cm high.
