Plants 200-300 mm high. Corm 10-13 mm diam.; tunics of fine to medium-textured fibres. Stem usually with 2 or 3, short, drooping, filiform branches, subtended by scale-like, acuminate-truncate bracts and prophylls ± 1 mm long. Leaves 3, lower 2 basal, linear, slightly twisted (juvenile leaves loosely coiled distally), ± 1/3 as long as stem, ± 3 mm wide; main vein slightly raised, margins not thickened, uppermost leaf ± entirely sheathing with short free tip, enclosing most of stem. Main spike 2-or 3-flowered, lateral spikes mostly 1-flowered; bracts membranous, translucent with light brown veins, 6-7 mm long, outer 3-veined and acutely 3-toothed, inner 2-veined and 2-toothed, ± as long as outer. Flowers nodding to half pendent, pale mauve, faintly rose-scented; perianth tube funnel-shaped, 6-7 mm long, narrow lower part ± 3 mm long; tepals ascending below, spreading distally, obovoid-ellipsoid, 12-14 x 6-7 mm. Filaments ± 7 mm long, exserted ± 1.5 mm from mouth of tube; anthers ± 3 mm long, ± parallel, later weakly diverging, yellow. Style dividing opposite middle to upper 1/3 of anthers, 1.5(-2.5) mm long.
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