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Perennial herb, geophyte, 0.30-0.55 m high, solitary; corm tunics of pale, straw-coloured fibres; stem erect, simple. Leaf 1, linear, canaliculate. Spathes herbaceous, apex dry or brown. Inflorescence with cream-coloured to yellow flowers; nectar guides deep yellow; tepals lanceolate, outer 35-50 mm long, slightly reflexed, inner up to 35 mm long, erect. Stamens: filaments up to 10 mm long, united in lower 2/3; anthers up to 9 mm long. Ovary oblong, ± 15 mm long; style branches up to 13 mm long. Flowering time Sept.-Dec. Capsule cylindric.
Cormous herb, up to 350 mm tall. Plant with 2 or more sheathing bracts present. Tunics of pale straw-coloured fibres. Cataphylls brown, usually broken vertically into irregular strips. Leaf solitary, linear, 3-6 mm wide. Flowers cream to yellow with deeper, yellow nectar guides on outer tepals.
Flowers cream to yellow with deeper yellow nectar guides on the outer tepals; outer tepals 35–50 mm long, lanceolate, claw 12–20 mm long, limb slightly reflexed, wide; inner tepals c. 35 × 7 mm long, lanceolate, erect.
Leaf solitary, usually exceeding the stem in length, 3–6 mm wide, linear, channelled; sheathing leaves 2–3(4), green, with a dry brown apex, 8–12 cm long.
Rhipidium single, terminal; spathes green with a dry brown apex, the inner 7–9(12) cm long, the outer slightly shorter than the inner.
Ovary c. 15 mm long, oblong, exserted from the spathes; style branches 11–13 mm long, crests c. 10 mm long.
Filaments c. 10 mm long, united in the lower two-thirds, anthers 8–9 mm long.
Cataphylls brown, usually broken vertically into irregular strips.
Corms 10–15 mm in diameter; tunics of pale straw-coloured fibres.
Plants 15–50(70) cm high, usually c. 35 cm high.
Capsules c. 2 cm long, cylindric.
Stem erect, simple.
