Plants small, ± 50 mm high. Corm spindle-shaped, ± 10 mm diam.; tunics dark brown, very hard, breaking into ± netted fibres. Stem subterranean, with 2 to 4 ± sessile branches clustered at ground level, with cataphylls pale, becoming fibrous and forming a collar around base. Leaves several, basal longest, 40-60 mm long, linear-filiform, narrowly channelled, rigid, remaining leaves similar but shorter, clustered at ground level. Rhipidial spathes green, 25-30 mm long, inner entirely sheathing, outer somewhat leaf-like, sheathing for ± 5 mm, free distally. Flowers fugaceous, yellow, outer tepal limbs with yellow-orange nectar guides at bases; tepals united in tube 20-30 mm long, outer 23-30 mm long, claw 7-10 mm long, ascending, limb spreading to laxly reflexed, inner tepals 17-22 mm long, also spreading or becoming reflexed. Filaments 5-6 mm long, united in lower 1/3; anthers ± 5 mm long, yellow; pollen yellow. Ovary 4-5 mm long, subsessile, included; style branches 10-12 mm long, crests ± 10 mm long. Capsules and seeds unknown.
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Stemless, cormous geophyte, up to 50 mm tall. Leaves several, in a basal tuft, rigid, linear, channelled. Flowers enclosed in green, truncate spathes, deep yellow, outer tepals with black speckles in the centre, tepals united in a long perianth tube, unequal, the outer larger, both inner and outer tepals with lightly reflexed limbs, crests prominent, ovary concealed in the spathes.
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