Plants mostly 150-350 mm high. Corm subglobose, mostly 15-25 mm diam.; tunics of firm, often coarsely wiry, netted fibres, bearing small cormlets at base. Stem usually 1-to 3-branched, rarely simple; branches either ascending, fairly long and straight or shorter and ± twisted, subtended by obscure, obtuse bracts and prophylls ± 1 mm long. Leaves usually 3, lower 2 lanceolate to sword-shaped, oblong or falcate, (5-)10-18 mm wide, ± 1/3 as long as stem, margins moderately to strongly thickened, sometimes slightly crisped, uppermost leaf sheathing lower 1/2-2/3 of stem. Main spike mostly 3-to 7-flowered, lateral spikes (1-)3-to 6-flowered, either ± straight or twisted; bracts translucent sometimes tinged brown, especially in fruit, outer with 3 dark veins, mostly 7-11 mm long, acutely 3-toothed, inner ± as long or slightly longer, with 2 dark veins, 2-toothed at apex. Flowers nodding, deep pink, pale mauve or blue-mauve, white or yellow in throat, sometimes edged darker pink or purple, unscented or with a faint rose or sour odour; perianth tube (7-)10-18(-23) mm long, narrowly funnel-shaped, flaring in upper 1/3, slightly curved near base; tepals subequal, ovate, 13-20(-23) x (6-)7-10 mm, spreading. Filaments 8-12 mm long, exserted 6-8 mm; anthers 3-5 mm long before splitting. Style dividing between base and middle of anthers, branches 1.8-3.0 mm long, extending between anthers.
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Cormous geophyte, 15-40 cm, with 1 or 2 sturdy, twisted or straight branches, flowers occasionally crowded distally. Leaves broad, often falcate. Flowers ascending or often facing the side, pink to mauve, occasionally red, tube narrowly funnel-shaped, 7-18 mm long, filaments exserted 6-8 mm from tube.
Cormous geophyte, up to 450 mm tall, stem with slightly twisted branches. Leaves 3, basal 2 broad, falcate to lanceolate, upper leaf sheathing stem. Flowers 76-178 mm a suberect spike, large, pink, pale in centre, stamens well exserted.
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