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Foliage leaf single, often emergent at flowering time and shorter than the stem at anthesis, becoming much taller, 9–15 mm wide, linear, channelled, becoming flat above; sheathing leaves 2(4), more or less dry, imbricate, reddish-brown.
Flowers pale-to deep-blue to violet with white to yellow nectar guides on the outer tepals; outer tepals 40–65 mm long, the limb about as long as the claw, spreading 30°–40° below the horizontal, inner 35–45 mm long, more or less erect.
Rhipidium single and terminal; spathes green, often flushed red, becoming dry and brown, attenuate, the inner 7–10(12) cm long, the outer 2–3 cm shorter than the inner.
1-3 mauve Iris-like flowers on stiff stems about 1 ft. high; flowers appearing after fire in the dry season, followed by the leaves.
Ovary 15–20 mm long, cylindric and trigonous; style branches 15–20 mm long, crests 10–20 mm long.
Cataphylls dark-brown, initially unbroken, but often persisting and then becoming fragmented.
Corms 15–20 mm in diameter; tunics brown, firm-textured, hidden by the cataphylls.
Filaments 9–15 mm long, united in the lower half, anthers 8–12 mm long.
Plants 20–50 cm high, sometimes caespitose.
Capsule 25–35 mm long, nearly cylindric.
Highland plant
Stem simple.
