Plants up to 350 mm high. Corm 8-11 mm diam.; tunics brown, ± woody, inner layers entire, outer splitting from base. Stem mostly 3 or 4(5) internodes long, with 1 or 2 branches at each node, branches slightly flexed above sheath of subtending leaf. Leaves 3 to 5, lowermost longest, inserted 10-20 mm above ground, linear, channelled, ± straight or loosely twisted, up to 450 mm long, upper leaves progressively shorter, none entirely sheathing. Rhipidial spathes: inner 35-40 mm long, ± truncate, apex brown, somewhat lacerated, outer 1/2-2/3 as long, with acute, brown apex. Flowers buff-yellow, lightly brown-veined, outer tepals darkly veined abaxially, limbs with deep yellow nectar guides at bases edged brown, spreading slightly below horizontal, inner tepals with reddish brown spot at bases of limbs, similarly spreading, outer tepals 30-32 mm long, limbs 20-22 x 10-12 mm, claws ± 10 mm long, inner tepals oblanceolate, ± 22 x 5-6 mm. Filaments 8-9 mm long, united in lower 5-6 mm, diverging distally; anthers dark purple, 3.5-5.0 mm long; pollen red. Ovary exserted, oblong-elliptic, 5-6 mm long; style branches ± 10 mm long, crests 10-14 mm long, erect, narrowly wedge-shaped. Capsules narrowly obovoid, 9-11 mm long. Seeds softly angular, ± 1 mm long, with rugulo-reticulate surface, light yellow-brown.
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