Plants 90-160 mm high. Corm bell-shaped with flat, sometimes oblique base, 10-15 mm diam.; tunics dark brown, inner layers ± woody, outer layers becoming soft and broken, margins minutely serrated. Stem unbranched, glabrous. Leaves 3(4), lower 2 leaves usually prostrate (suberect in deeply shaded sites), fleshy, flaccid, obtuse, 50-70 x 4-5 mm, with main vein raised, margins pale, slightly thickened, third leaf sheathing lower 1/3 of stem, slightly inflated, fourth leaf (when present) on upper part of stem, bract-like and entirely sheathing. Spike mostly 2-or 3(5)-flowered, outer bract 8-9 mm long, green flushed red distally, inner slightly shorter to ± as long, partly membranous with 2 green keels, notched apically. Flowers crepuscular, white, outer and sometimes inner tepals red to brown outside, rose-scented; perianth tube narrowly cylindric, slightly wider near apex, ± 5 mm long; tepals subequal, elliptic, ± 10 x 4 mm. Filaments ± 0.5 mm long; anthers ± 4 mm long, erect, pale yellow; pollen white. Style branches ± 2.5 mm long, arching upward, reaching to the lower 1/3 to slightly below middle of anthers in closed flower. Capsules and seeds unknown.
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