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Plants 120-350 mm high, with long, chestnut-brown cataphylls and a collar of fibres at base. Corm 12-20 mm diam., tunics of medium-textured fibres. Stem simple or with 1 or 2 upright branches. Leaves usually 4 or 5, lower 3 or 4 with sword-shaped to falcate blades, ± 1/2 as long as stem and (2-)3-5 mm wide, uppermost leaf entirely sheathing, main vein and margins slightly to moderately thickened. Spike flexuose, 2-ranked, mostly 6-to 12-flowered; bracts membranous, translucent, outer 4-5 mm long, outer with prominent central vein or secondary veins equally prominent, 3-lobed with central lobe largest or ± equally 3-lobed, inner slightly shorter than outer, 2-veined and 2-toothed. Flowers nodding with tepals held vertically, deep pink (sometimes called purple), white (sometimes edged with dark pink) at base of tepals, unscented; perianth tube filiform but expanded near mouth, 3-5 mm long; tepals oblong, (8-)10-14 x 4-8 mm. Filaments symmetrical in bud, becoming unilateral in open flower, held horizontally at right angles to tepals, inserted at mouth of tube, filiform, 2-3(-4) mm long, white; anthers oblong-linear, 2.5-4.0 mm long, yellow, dehiscing completely. Style dividing between base and lower 1/3 of filaments, branches ± 2 mm long, tubular, strongly falcate.
Cormous geophyte, 120-200 mm tall, sometimes with 1 or 2 short branchlets. Leaves linear to falcate, rigid, up to 4 mm wide. Flowers 6-10 in a 2-ranked spike, deep pink, perianth tube filiform, 3-5 mm long, tepals spreading, 9-14 mm long, stamens unilateral, fully exserted.
