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Perennial herb, geophyte, 0.10-0.25 m high; corm with pale to dark tunics of ± entire layers or coarse fibres, often bearing a cormlet in leaf axil; stem either contracted, sometimes with many basal branches or extended with short, ± sessile, aerial branches. Leaves 1 or 2, linear, canaliculate, ribbed, 2-4 mm wide. Spathes usually dry, occasionally herbaceous at base and dry towards apex, cylindric. Inflorescence with pale blue-lilac flowers with darker speckles over outer tepals; nectar guides yellow; tepals spreading to reflexed, outer 17-28 mm long, inner 15-19 mm long. Stamens: filaments united only near base, 5-6 mm long. Ovary cylindrical, with long beak; style branches 8-12 mm long. Flowering time Aug., Sept. Capsule oblong.
Cormous geophyte, up to 400 mm high; cataphylls of mature plant split regularly into rigid, blackish fibres, innermost cataphyll not forming an open network above. Leaf solitary, linear, up to 0.7 m long. Flowers: style crests 3-6 mm long; filaments united for < a V4 of their length; ovary elongate-cylindric, ± sessile, included within spathes, tapers into a tube-like beak; perianth with outer segment limb spotted throughout; inner segments 9-20 mm long, pale blue-lilac with darker speckles and yellow nectar guides; Aug.-Oct.
Perennial herb, up to 400 mm tall. Tunicate corm 15-20 mm in diameter. Outer tepal limb spotted throughout; inner tepals 9-20 mm long. Style crests 3-6 mm long. Filaments united for less than a quarter of their length. Flowers pale blue-lilac with darker speckles and yellow nectar guides.
Cormous geophyte, 150-400 mm tall. Leaves 1 or 2, linear, channelled. Flowers enclosed by translucent spathes, pale mauve, speckled with darker mauve, with yellow nectar guides on the outer tepals, inner tepals small, laxly spreading.
A corm or bulb plant. It grows 15-40 cm tall. There are 1 or 2 narrow leaves. These have a channel. The flowers have a translucent spathe around them. It is mauve with darker speckles.
