Plants 160-350 mm high. Corm ± conical, 12-18 mm at widest diam., with numerous small cormlets round base; tunics of medium-textured, matted, dark grey fibres. Stem flexuose, 1-to 5-branched, rarely simple, bearing sheathing leaves 32-38 mm long. Foliage leaf solitary, linear, longer than stem, erect to falcate, narrowly channelled, 2-3 mm wide opened flat. Rhipidial spathes with brown, attenuate tips, inner 33-45 mm long, outer ± half as long. Flowers fugaceous, blue, outer tepal limbs with white nectar guides at bases sometimes edged with dark blue, limbs of both whorls ± half reflexed, inner often more so than outer, unscented; outer tepals ± lanceolate, 22-27 x 8-9 mm, limbs 15-18 mm long, claws 7-8 mm long, inner tepals 17-20 x 5-7 mm. Filaments ± 8 mm long, united in lower half; anthers ± 5 mm long, grey-blue; pollen white or pale blue. Ovary ± cylindric, 5-6 mm long; style branches ± 7 x 5 mm, crests narrowly wedge-shaped, 7-8 mm long. Capsules and seeds unknown.
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