Plants (150-)250-750 mm high. Corm subglobose, 8-12 mm diam., producing flattened stolons from base; tunics soft, ± papery. Stem with 1 to 5 twisted, filiform branchlets subtended by forked, attenuate bracts and prophylls 2-5 mm long. Leaves 3, lower 2 linear, often trailing above, (1.5-)2.0-5.0(-8.0) mm wide, ± 1/2 as long as stem, margins plane, barely thickened, edges flat or concave, uppermost leaf sheathing stem below spike. Main spike nodding, 2-to 5(-7)-flowered, lateral spikes nodding, (1)2-to 4(5)-flowered; bracts translucent, or dry and brown distally with age, 6-10 mm long, outer 3-veined, inner 2-veined, forked apically. Flowers half to fully nodding, pink or slate-blue with white cup, or white with pale yellow cup, faintly rose-to strongly carnation-scented; perianth tube 5-10 mm long, funnel-shaped, flaring in upper ± 5 mm; tepals subequal, ovate or narrowly ovate, 10-17 x 4.5-7.0 mm, proximal ± 3 mm forming part of floral cup, spreading distally. Filaments 2-3 mm long, included; anthers 3.0-4.5 mm long, included or half exserted from tube but included in floral cup, uniformly pale yellow or marked with dark, longitudinal streaks. Style dividing opposite or slightly beyond anther tips, branches 1.0-1.5 mm long, usually exceeding anthers when mature.
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Cormous geophyte, (150-)400-700 mm tall, corm with soft tunics and producing stolons, stem usually with short nodding branchlets. Leaves usually 3, lower 2 linear, uppermost leaf sheathing the stem. Flowers few in a wiry spike, nodding, pink, slate blue or white, sweetly scented, perianth tube funnel-shaped, 8-10 mm long, shorter than tepals, filaments included in tube.
Cormous geophyte, 15-70 cm, corms with stolons, stem usually branched. Leaves narrowly sword-shaped to linear, uppermost leaf entirely sheathing. Flowers pink, grey-blue or white, tube funnel-shaped, filaments included.
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