Plants 70-200 mm high. Corm mostly 12-20 mm diam.; tunics of coarse black fibres usually extending upwards in a collar around base. Stem simple or few-branched, branches ascending, exserted from subtending sheathing leaf, sheathing leaves dry, ± membranous, 20-30 mm long. Foliage leaf solitary, smooth, longer than stem but usually ± trailing, shallowly channelled, usually laxly twisted for entire length, margins undulate to crisped. Rhipidial spathes partly green, drying from above at flowering, acute or lacerated distally, margins membranous, translucent; inner spathe 30-40 mm long, outer ± half as long. Flowers fugaceous, yellow, outer tepal limbs with large, deep yellow nectar guides at bases, inner tepals, style branches and crests paler yellow than outer tepals or white; outer tepals 26-33 x 11-13 mm, broadly lanceolate, ± half reflexed; inner tepals ± 25 mm long, limbs also reflexed. Filaments 10-12 mm long, united in lower ± 2/3; anthers ± 6 mm long, yellow; pollen white. Ovary narrowly ellipsoid, 6-8 mm long, included; style branches ± 10 mm long, crests 10-15 mm long, broadly lanceolate. Capsules narrowly ellipsoid, 12-15 mm long. Seeds not known.
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Cormous geophyte, 120-800 mm tall. Leaf 1, linear, shallowly channelled, spreading over the ground, margins undulate, often crisped. Flowers enclosed in green spathes often dry above, yellow, tepals limbs lightly reflexed, the inner slightly smaller, style branches broad, crests prominent.
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