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Plants 150-350 mm long. Corm obovoid, obliquely pointed at the base, with short basal fibrils on a very small basal ridge. Leaves basal, filiform to compressed cylindrical, 100-350 x 1-2 mm, grooves narrow. Peduncles 50-180 mm long. Bracts green or greenish, outer with narrow, inner with wide, colourless membranous margins narrowing to a green tip. Flowers 25-40 mm long, pink, magenta-pink or rarely white, with a yellow or orange-yellow cup, outer segments green on the backs with 3-5 purplish veins and feathered veining. Perianth tube 5-7 mm long; segments 18-30 x 6-12 mm. Filaments 4-10 mm; anthers 6-8 mm long, reaching less than halfway up the perianth. Style 8-12 mm; stigmas at or just below the anther tips. Capsules on erect peduncles.
Perennial herb, geophyte, 0.15-0.35 m high; corm obliquely flattened, with brown tunics; stem subterranean. Leaves 3-6, basal, filiform, narrowly 4-grooved, 1-2 mm in diam. Bracts greenish, ± triangular, acuminate, margins membranous. Flowers pink to white; cup yellow to orange; perianth tube 5-7 mm long, funnel-shaped; tepals obovate to elliptic, 18-30 mm long, acute to obtuse. Stamens inserted, erect; filaments 4-10 mm long, pilose in lower half, orange-yellow; anthers 6-8 mm long, golden-yellow. Flowering time Apr.-Oct. Capsule on erect peduncles.
