Plants large, 350-600 mm high, with collar of fine fibres around base. Corm deep seated, up to 250 mm below ground, compressed-globose, ± 20 mm diam.; tunics of fine fibres. Stem leafless for 100-150 mm above ground, several-branched. Leaves 3 to 6, inserted well above ground level, lower exceeding stem, linear, channelled, trailing distally, ± 10 mm wide. Rhipidial spathes green below, dry and brown distally, attenuate, inner 40-50 mm long, outer ± 2/3 as long. Flowers fugaceous, large, yellow, outer tepal limbs with deeper yellow nectar guides edged with light brown at bases; outer tepals 25-40 mm long, limbs lanceolate, ± spreading, claw short, ± 5 mm long; inner tepals 22-35 mm long, spreading. Filaments ± 8 mm long, united near base; anthers 8-10 mm long, exceeding stigma lobes; pollen bright red. Ovary ovoid, 6-8 mm long, style branches ± 12 mm long, crests 15-20 mm long. Capsules subglobose, up to 15 x ± 8 mm diam., showing outline of seeds, ± nodding. Seeds ± globose, slightly angled by pressure.
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Cormous geophyte, 150-300 mm tall, stem branched, minutely hairy. Leaves several, linear, channelled, trailing above. Flowers enclosed in green, obtuse spathes, pale yellow, tepal claws short, limbs spreading, filaments united in lower third, pollen red, style branches diverging, crests prominent, erect.
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