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Plants 100-400 mm long. Corm sub-globose or obovoid, with sharply bent, acuminate, grooved, basal teeth bent over a rounded base. Leaves basal, terete to compressed cylindrical, 60-250(-400) x 1-4 mm, bent, rigid, grooves narrow or wide. Bracts green with closely spaced veins, outer with narrow, inner with wide, brown-streaked, or rarely almost colourless membranous margins and tip. Flowers (15-)20-40(-45) mm long, magenta-rose to pale lilac-pink or white, usually with a violet-black blotch sometimes reduced to a few lines on each segment in the throat, cup yellow, sometimes with dark lines, outer segments greenish yellow on the backs, with dark lines and feathered veining. Perianth tube 4-8 mm long; segments (10-)18-35 x (3-)5-15 mm. Filaments 4-8 mm; anthers 5-10 mm long, violet or yellow. Style 6-10 mm; stigmas reaching halfway up the anthers or almost to their tips. Capsules on bent peduncles which twist spirally when dry.
Perennial herb, geophyte, 0.1-0.4 m high; corm obovoid, with curved acuminate teeth; stem subterranean. Leaves 4-10, basal, narrow or swollen, widely 4-grooved, occasionally minutely hairy. Bracts green, ovate, concave, margins membranous. Flowers 1-5, magenta to pale pink or white; perianth tube 4-8 mm long, funnel-shaped; tepals 18-35 mm long, obovate. Stamens erect; filaments 4-8 mm long, pilose below; anthers 5-10 mm long, black, violet or yellow; pollen golden-yellow. Style 6-10 mm long; stigma 2-3 m long. Flowering time Apr.-Oct. Capsule cylindrical or ellipsoid.
Cormous geophyte, 80-150 mm tall, corms rounded at base with curved acuminate teeth. Leaves several, occasionally minutely hairy. Flowers magenta to pale pink or white with dark veins and dark blotches at edge of yellow, streaked cup; outer bract with brown dry margins and tip, inner bracts with wide dry margins; fruiting peduncles recurved and later coiled.
Cormous geophyte, 8-15 cm, corms rounded at base with coarse, bent teeth. Basal leaves several. Flowers magenta to pale pink or white with dark veins and dark blotches at edge of yellow cup, bracts with broad membranous margins.
