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Flowers pale to deep-pink, the lower tepals each with a median white to yellow streak outlined in dark-red or purple, the mark broadest in the centre and largest on the lower lateral tepals; perianth tube 30–40 mm long, narrowly funnel-shaped, the lower part c. 20 mm long; tepals subequal or the uppermost somewhat larger than the others, 38–45 mm long, lanceolate, the uppermost tepal more or less horizontal, 15–20 mm wide, the lower 3 tepals joined for c. 5 mm, dipping slightly below horizontal, 8–12 mm wide.
Foliage leaves 4–5, fairly soft-textured, the midrib and margins not thickened, the lower 3 more or less basal and longer than the others, reaching to about the base of the spike, 8–18(24) mm wide, lanceolate to linear, the upper 2 leaves cauline and sheathing in the lower half.
Filaments 15–20 mm long, included or exserted 10(15) mm from the tube; anthers 10–15 mm long, reaching to about the middle of the uppermost tepal, with an acute apiculus c. 1.5 mm long.
Corms 15–25 mm in diameter; tunics initially membranous, becoming more or less fibrous and matted with age, fibres brown, enclosing numerous small cormlets.
Spike (2)5–9-flowered; bracts pale-green and soft-textured, the outer sometimes flushed red, 25–40(50) mm long, the inner two-thirds as long as the outer.
A herb with grass-like leaves 1-2 ft. long, the same length as the inflorescence
Style dividing at or beyond the anther apices, style branches c. 4 mm long.
Capsules c. 15 mm long, more or less elliptic.
Flowers 2 in. long, pink with yellow inside
Plants 40–80 cm high.
Stem unbranched.
