Plants 500-750 mm high. Corm ± globose, ± 20 mm diam.; tunics of coarse, wiry black fibres. Stem several-branched, branches ascending, flexed below rhipidia, with attenuate sheathing leaves with dry, brown tips. Foliage leaves 3 or 4, lowermost basal, remaining cauline, up to 600 mm long, channelled, falcate, bent and trailing distally, up to 20 mm wide. Rhipidial spathes attenuate, dry and brown distally, inner 40-50 mm long, outer ± 2/3 as long. Flowers fugaceous, yellow (rarely orange), nodding to pendent, tepal limbs darkly speckled at bases, reflexed when fully open; outer tepals ± lanceolate, 24-28 x 7-8 mm, claws ± 4 mm long, clasping base of filament column, inner tepals slightly smaller. Filaments united in a column ± 15 mm long, swollen abruptly above base, tapering to apex, velvety in lower half; anthers 3-6 mm long, collapsing and shorter after anthesis, straight, contiguous, red; pollen orange-red (yellow). Ovary ± ovoid, 9-10 mm long; style branches 2.5-3.5 mm long, bifurcate, initially obscured by anthers, later apices extending between or above anthers, crests lacking. Capsules ± cylindric to club-shaped, 15-18 mm long. Seeds angular-prismatic.
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Cormous geophyte, up to 900 mm tall, stem branched. Leaves 3 or more, linear, channelled, trailing above. Flowers enclosed in green spathes, salmon or yellow, minutely speckled in centre, nodding, anthers bright red, tepals with short, clasping claws, limbs fully recurved, filament column bulbous below, style branches concealed by the anthers.
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