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Plants 120-250 mm long. Corm with a crescent-shaped basal ridge with rows of minute fibril clusters. Stem short or sometimes up to 50 mm. Basal leaves 2 or more, filiform, 120-250 x 0.8-1 mm, grooves narrow. Bracts largely green or purplish, inner with wide, colourless membranous margins and green tip. Flowers 20-38 mm long, bright magenta-pink with dark veins in the throat and orange-yellow cup, outer perianth segments maroon on the backs. Perianth tube 4-6 mm long; segments 15-25 x 5-9 mm. Filaments 3-4 mm, orange-yellow, pilose in the lower half; anthers 4-7 mm long, pale yellow. Style 10-12 mm; stigmas more or less at anther tips. Capsules ellipsoid, on widely patent peduncles which straighten later.
Cormous geophyte to 6 cm, corm with an oblique basal ridge, fibrils convergent in clusters. Basal leaves 2. Flowers magenta to pink with orange-yellow cup; bracteole margins unmarked.
