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Plants 100-500 mm. Corm subglobose, with strong, curved basal teeth bent over a rounded base. Stem short or up to 80 mm long, usually hidden under leaf bases. Leaves basal or sometimes basal and cauline, 100-500 x 0.5-1 mm. Bracts green or brownish green, inner with wide brown or speckled or sometimes colourless membranous margins. Flowers 15-50 mm long, deep old-rose to apricot or yellow, sometimes with dark blotches, cup greenish yellow or orange-yellow, outer segments on the backs brownish purple or irregularly marked or striped. Perianth tube 2-5 mm long; segments 10-40 x 3-12 mm. Filaments 3-8 mm; anthers 3-9 mm long. Style 6-15 mm. Capsules on strongly curved, flexuose, widely patent peduncles.
Corm globose; tunic toothed at base and forming a short fibrous neck at apex. Leaves several, basal, 8–25 cm long, up to 1 mm wide, almost terete. Stem absent. Scapes 5–12 cm long. Outer bract narrowly triangular, c. 12 mm long, herbaceous; inner bract c. 10 mm long, herbaceous with scarious brown-striate margins. Perianth tube c. 3 mm long, striped dull yellow and purple; lobes narrowly obovate, acute, 1–1.4 cm long, pale orange-brown to terracotta; sepals dull purple outside. Filaments 3–4 mm long; anthers 3–4 mm long. Style 6–8 mm long; stigmas level with top of anthers. Capsules cylindrical, c. 1 cm long, on flexuose scape spreading at maturity.
Cormous geophyte, 5-8 cm, corms rounded at base with coarse, bent teeth. Basal leaves 1-several. Flowers apricot or rose, often with dark blotches at edge of greenish to yellow cup.
