Plants 160-250 mm high. Corm 12-18 mm diam.; tunics of wiry, medium-textured to fine, black fibres. Stem sharply flexed above sheaths of foliage leaves, 1-to few-branched. Foliage leaves (2)3, lowermost longest, inserted well above ground, suberect, exceeding stem, linear to falcate, channelled, 2-3 mm wide. Rhipidial spathes acute, inner initially 30-40 mm long, later elongating to enclose developing capsules, outer ± 15-25 mm long. Flowers fugaceous, pale yellow, limbs of all tepals with deep yellow nectar guides at bases, ± spreading, tepal claws ascending, forming a cup including lower 2/3 of filament column; outer tepals obovate, 23-39 x ± 12 mm, claws ± 5 mm long, inner tepals lanceolate, 22-28 x ± 9 mm. Filaments united in a smooth, cylindric column ± 6 mm long or free distally for short distance; anthers ± 6 mm long, ascending, tips curving inward after dehiscence, yellow. Ovary ± cylindric, ± 7 mm long, usually included; style branches ascending, ± 2.5 x 1.5 mm, reaching to mid-anther level, margins serrated, stigma bilobed, appressed to anthers, receptive laterally, crests ± 0.5 mm long, arching inward, margins serrated. Capsules ± barrel-shaped, ± 9 mm long, included. Seeds angular.
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Cormous geophyte, up to 250 mm tall, stem flexed above the leaf sheaths. Leaves 2 or 3, linear, channelled, trailing above. Flowers enclosed in green spathes, yellow or salmon, tepals with short, cupped claws, limbs spreading, filaments in a slender column, style branches shorter than anthers, with serrated margins, crests erect, also serrated.
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