Plants 350-600(-850) mm high. Corm globose, 15-20 mm diam.; tunics leathery to firm-papery, becoming ± fibrous or irregularly broken. Stem evidently erect and ± straight, unbranched. Leaves 6 to 9, lower 4 or 5 basal, either narrow and reaching to at least base of spike and often shortly exceeding it or broad and reaching only to middle of stem, lanceolate or narrowly sword-shaped to linear, (2.5-)4.0-12.0(-20.0) mm wide, sometimes longitudinally concave or channelled, main vein usually lightly thickened, margins lightly to fairly heavily thickened, intercostal surface occasionally shortly hairy, cauline leaves progressively smaller, uppermost 1 or 2 usually entirely sheathing. Spike ± erect and straight, 6-to 14(-27)-flowered; bracts firm-textured, green to grey-purple but usually dry and brownish above by anthesis, outer 18-30 mm long, overlapping and usually 1/2-2 internodes long, inner shorter or almost as long. Flowers white or pale to deep pink, lower laterals or all 3 lower tepals with small purplish spot or sometimes crescent in upper 1/3, yellowish in throat, unscented; perianth tube obliquely funnel-shaped, ± 15 mm long; tepals ovate, ± acute, upper 3 largest, 15-18 x 10-12 mm, dorsal arching over stamens, strongly channelled, upper laterals directed forward, curving outward in distal 1/3, lower 3 tepals united for ± 3 mm, 9-12 mm long, channelled below, curving downward above. Filaments 9-11 mm long, exserted ± 3 mm from tube; anthers appressed to dorsal tepal, 8-9 mm long including sterile spurs 3-4 mm long, pale yellow fading to mauve, spurs white, held at right angles to anther thecae; pollen whitish. Style arching over stamens, dividing opposite upper 1/3 of anthers, branches ± 3 mm long. Capsules and seeds unknown.
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