Plants ± 30 mm high. Corm globose, ± 12-16 mm diam.; tunics of grey-brown, medium-textured, netted fibres, accumulating in fibrous collar around base of stem. Stem with 3 aerial internodes, unbranched, sheathing leaves with dry attenuate apices, 35-40 mm long. Foliage leaf solitary, basal, linear, narrowly channelled, 2/3 to ± as long as stem, ± 2 mm wide opened flat. Rhipidial spathes with dry, attenuate apices, inner ± 40 mm long, outer ± half as long. Flowers lasting 3 days, purple, outer tepal limbs with white, wedge-shaped nectar guides at bases, laxly spreading to weakly reflexed; outer tepals ± 20 mm long, claws ± 6 mm long, ascending; inner tepals ± 9 mm long, limbs spreading, ± 4 mm long, 3-lobed with long, tapering central cusp and short, rounded, obtuse lateral lobes, claws ± 5 mm long, ascending, tapering from narrow base to wide apex. Filaments ± 8 mm long, united in smooth cylindric column in lower ± 3 mm, diverging in upper 5 mm; anthers ± 5 mm long, dark purple; pollen red. Ovary ± cylindric, ± 8 mm long, exserted; style branches ± 8 x 2 mm long, ascending, held above subtending limbs, crests narrowly wedge-shaped, ± 4 mm long. Capsules and seeds unknown.
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