Flowers yellow with deeper yellow nectar guides on the outer tepals; outer tepals (50)60–75(100) mm long, lanceolate, the limb 30–50 mm long; inner tepals 45–70 mm long, lanceolate, erect.
Foliage leaf solitary, shortly exceeding the stem, 8–12 mm wide, linear, channelled or flat; sheathing leaves 2–3(4) usually widely spaced, green with a dry brown apex, 9–11 cm long.
Rhipidium single, terminal; spathes green with a dry brown apex, the inner 9–15 cm long, the outer c. two-thirds as long as the inner.
Ovary 15–25 mm long, usually exserted; style branches 17–25 mm long, crests 10–17 mm long.
Filaments 11–16 mm long, free in the upper third, anthers 10–14 mm long.
Corms c. 20 mm in diameter; tunics of coarse pale or dark-brown fibres.
Cataphylls pale to dark-brown, dry, broken and becoming fibrous above.
Plants 45–75 cm high.
Stem erect, simple.
Capsules unknown.