Plants slender, 150-400 mm high. Corm ± 10 mm diam.; tunics of wiry, black fibres. Stem flexed above leaf insertion, 1-to few-branched, bearing sheathing leaves 20-40 mm long. Foliage leaf solitary, inserted well above ground, channelled, exceeding stem, 2-4 mm wide, often broken and trailing above. Rhipidial spathes attenuate, inner 40-50 mm long, outer ± 2/3 as long. Flowers fugaceous, pale yellow, limbs of all tepals with deeper yellow nectar guides at bases, spreading horizontally, claws short, appressed to lower part of filament column; outer tepals ± 28 x 12 mm, claws 1-2 mm long, limb pandurate-obovoid; inner tepals up to 20 x 8 mm. Filaments 5-6 mm long, partly united in a slender, smooth column, free and diverging in upper 0.5-1.0 mm; anthers ± 4 mm long, diverging and arching inward distally, exceeding stigmas, collapsing after anthesis, yellow. Ovary ± cylindric, 7-8 mm long, included; style branches broad, flattened, ± 2.5 mm long, stigmatic lobe upright, receptive laterally, crests 1.0-1.5 mm long. Capsules and seeds unknown.
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Cormous geophyte, 120-350 mm tall, stem flexed above the leaf sheaths. Leaves few (occasionally 1). Flowers enclosed in green spathes, yellow or salmon, tepals with short, cupped claws, limbs spreading, filaments in a slender column, style branches with short, erect crests.
Cormous geophyte, 15-40 cm. Leaf solitary, stem flexed outward above leaf. Flowers stellate, with short tepal claws, yellow or salmon-pink, stamens exserted from a short cup.
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