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Plants 150-500 mm long. Corm with minute fibril clusters on a crescent-shaped basal ridge. Stem 40-350 mm long. Basal leaves 2, filiform, glabrous or ciliate along the median rib margins, 150-500 x 0.8-1 mm, grooves usually narrow. Bracts sub-membranous in the lower half, inner with wide brown-edged or streaked membranous margins. Flowers 22-38 mm, long, cream, pale yellow, greenish yellow or pale apricot, with a yellow cup, outer perianth segments often with greenish brown feathered veining on the backs. Perianth tube 3-5 mm long; segments 15-30 x 6-8 mm. Filaments 3-8 mm; anthers 5-7 mm, at first joined at their tips, yellow or rarely violet. Style 8-14 mm; stigmas reaching the anther tips. Capsules on straight or slightly patent peduncles.
Perennial herb, geophyte, 0.02-0.50 m high; stem erect, rigid. Leaves 3-5, basal 2, narrowly 4-grooved, filiform, suberect or bent, glabrous or ciliate. Bracts green or reddish, submembranous in lower half. Flowers usually 2-4, cream-coloured to apricot; cup yellow; perianth tube 3-5 mm long, funnel-shaped; tepals 15-30 x 6-8 mm, narrowly elliptic. Stamens erect; filaments 3-8 mm long, pilose near base, orange-yellow; anthers 5-7 mm long, yellow or violet. Style 8-14 mm long; stigma 1 mm long, reaching anther apex. Flowering time Aug.-Nov. Capsule ellipsoid, on straight or slightly patent peduncles.
Cormous geophyte, 4-35 cm, corm with an oblique basal ridge, fibrils convergent in clusters, stem branched above ground. Basal leaves 2. Flowers cream-coloured to apricot with yellow cup.
