Rhizomes short. Roots slender. Leaves yellowish green, linear, 6--10 cm × 2--6 mm at anthesis, to 34 cm × 3--7 mm in fruit, midvein absent, apex apiculate. Flowering stems not emerging above ground; spathes 2 or 3, green, broadly lanceolate, 5--6 cm × 1--1.8 mm, 1-flowered, apex acuminate. Flowers pale purple to mauve-purple, blotched darker, 5--6 cm in diam.; pedicel 1--1.5 cm. Perianth tube trumpet-shaped, 5.5--6 cm; outer segments spatulate, 4--5 × ca. 1.5 cm, claw and base of limb with dense beard of white-based, yellow-tipped hairs, apex of limb truncate; inner segments erect, oblanceolate, ca. 4 × 1 cm. Stamens 2--2.3 cm. Ovary ca. 6 cm. Style branches ca. 3.2 cm × 6 mm. Capsule globose, 2--2.5 × 1.5--1.8 cm, shortly beaked. Seeds reddish brown, with milky yellow aril. 2 n = 22, 24.
Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs stratification.
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