Plants 250-350 mm high. Corm 9-12 mm diam. with pale, fibrous tunics. Stem simple or with 1 or 2 short branches. Foliage leaf solitary, linear, channelled, remaining ± erect, ± 2 mm wide when opened flat; sheathing leaves 2 or 3, attenuate, becoming dry at tips, 35-45 mm long. Rhipidial spathes with dry, attenuate tips, inner 40-45 mm long, outer ± 2/3 as long. Flowers pale blue to violet, outer tepal limbs darkly veined, with narrowly triangular, shortly velvety, yellow nectar guides at bases of outer tepal limbs outlined pale blue to dark violet; outer tepals 21.0-23.5 mm long, claw 8-10 mm long, with a shallow raised marginal tooth shortly below apex, limbs 12.5-13.5 x 7-8 mm; inner tepals short, ± 4 mm long, 3-forked in upper 1 mm, inner lobe slightly larger than laterals, ± puberulous. Filaments ± 4 mm long, united in puberulous column in lower 1.5 mm; anthers ± 6.5 mm long, dark violet; pollen yellow. Ovary narrowly ellipsoid, ± 7 mm long, initially partly included, ultimately fully exserted; style branches linear, 9 x 1 mm, crests ± 7 mm long, erect. Capsules and seeds unknown.
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