Flowers pale-yellow, the outer tepals with deeper yellow nectar guides and the limbs conspicuously darkly veined and spotted in the lower half; outer tepals 45–55(65) mm long, lanceolate, the limb 25–40 mm long, often slightly exceeding the claw; inner tepals 35–50(60) mm long, lanceolate, erect.
Rhipidium single, terminal; spathes green with a dry brown apex, the inner 6–10 cm long, the outer c. two-thirds as long as the inner.
Foliage leaf solitary, much exceeding the stem, 2.5–6 mm wide, linear, channelled; sheathing leaves 2–4, green, 6–7 mm long.
Ovary 15–20 mm long, usually exserted; style branches 13–16 mm long, crests 8–15 mm long.
Filaments 9–14 mm long, free in the upper third, anthers 8–10 mm long.
Corms c. 15 mm in diameter; tunics of pale medium to coarse fibres.
Cataphylls light-brown, irregularly broken.
Capsules 20–30 mm long, oblong.
Plants (30)40–70 cm high.
Stem erect, simple.