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Flowers white to cream-coloured (sometimes flushed with pink) or light-purple, the lower lateral tepal or all 3 lower tepals each with a broad yellow median streak, the lower part of the tube dark-purple; perianth tube c. 10 mm long, obliquely infundibuliform; tepals unequal, the uppermost larger than the others, c. 20 × c. 12 mm, obovate, the lower 3 tepals spreading more or less horizontally, c. 20 × c. 8 mm, lanceolate, narrowed into claws below.
Foliage leaves 6–8, the lower 2–3 basal and larger than the others, reaching to just above the base of the spike, 7–12 mm at the widest, narrowly lanceolate to sublinear, usually densely (sometimes lightly) pubescent, the margins and midrib slightly thickened; the upper leaves cauline and progressively reduced in size.
Spike 9–14-flowered; bracts evidently green below, becoming dry and light-brown above, 16–20(25) cm long, narrowly lanceolate, attenuate; the inner about two-thirds as long as the outer.
Corms c. 15 mm in diameter, globose; tunics brown coriaceous, the outer layers breaking into medium to coarse vertical fibres.
Style dividing opposite the apex of the anthers; style branches c. 2.5 mm long.
Filaments c. 12 mm long, exserted for c. 7 mm; anthers c. 9 mm long.
Stem unbranched, glabrous.
Plants 50–75 cm high.
Capsules unknown.
