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Plants 80-300 mm long. Corm bell-shaped, with minute fibril clusters on a circular basal ridge. Stem short, hidden, or up to 100 mm long. Basal leaves 2 or 3-4, filiform, 70-300 x c. 1 mm, grooves narrow. Bracts largely green or sometimes reddish; inner sometimes slightly shorter than the outer, with wide, brown-streaked or almost colourless membranous margins. Flowers 25-45 mm long, carmine-red to deep rosy-pink, with a large purple-black blotch on each segment in the throat, cup cream, with dark V-shaped markings near the base, outer segments with red and yellow irregular markings or purplish red. Perianth tube 5-7 mm long; segments subequal or the inner slightly shorter and wider, 18-35 x 9-15 mm. Filaments 3-5 mm, widened and pilose at the bases; anthers c. twice as long. Style 10-15 mm.
Cormous geophyte, 8-12 cm, corms symmetrical, bell-shaped, fibrils convergent in clusters. Basal leaves 2-4. Flowers pink to red with black blotches at edge of cream-coloured cup.
