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Leaves compressed cylindrical, 100-130 x 2-3 mm. Outer bract with a green, almost triangular, central basal part and wide, minutely speckled membranous margins and tip; inner green or greenish in the centre, margins and tip as the outer. Flowers 22-33 mm long, pale wistaria-blue, each segment with a violet and below that an almost black blotch, cup and throat orange-yellow with dark lines, outer segments on the backs with, 3-5 violet veins and fine feathered veining. Perianth tube 5-6 mm long; segments 15-22 x 8-10 mm. Filaments 5-6 mm; anthers 4-5 mm long, yellow. Style 10-12 mm; stigmas at or just below the anther tips. Capsules on strongly recurved, and later flexuose peduncles.
Cormous geophyte, 80-130 mm tall, corm rounded at base, with curved acuminate teeth. Leaves 3-5, somewhat swollen, narrowly 4-grooved. Flowers pale wisteria blue with violet and black blotches around yellow cup; outer bract with a triangular green lower half and wide, brown-speckled, hyaline margins and tips, inner bract with wide hyaline margins; fruiting peduncles strongly recurved or later flexuose.
