Plants densely tufted. Rhizomes knobbly. Leaves grayish green, linear, 15--23 cm × 2--3 mm at anthesis, 70--80 cm × 7--10 mm in fruit, base surrounded by maroon-brown, persistent sheaths. Flowering stems 25--50 cm, glabrous, 3-or 4-leaved; spathes 3, green, 7--14 × 1.8--2 cm, 2-flowered, apex shortly acuminate. Flowers violet, funnelform, 8--9 cm in diam.; pedicel ca. 4.5 cm. Perianth tube 5--7 mm; outer segments ascending, fiddle-shaped, 5--5.5 × ca. 1 cm, limb ovate or elliptic; inner segments erect, oblanceolate, ca. 3.5 cm × 5 mm. Stamens ca. 2.5 cm; anthers brown. Ovary ca. 2.5 cm. Style branches ca. 3.5 × 1 cm. Capsule ovoid to cylindric, 4--6.5 × 1.5--2 cm, leathery, 3-angled, reticulate veined, apex long beaked. Seeds maroon-brown, pyriform. Fl. Jun--Jul, fr. Aug--Sep.
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