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Plants 50-250 mm long. Corm with a small crescent-shaped basal ridge sometimes forming an almost complete circle; tunics minutely pitted, with rows of minute fibre clusters on the ridge. Stem short, hidden, or up to 120 mm long. Basal leaves 2 or more, filiform, 50-250 x 0.5-1.5 mm, grooves narrow. Outer bract largely green; inner with colourless or brown-edged membranous margins, sometimes slightly shorter than the outer. Flowers 15-45 mm long, yellow or apricot-yellow, sometimes with dark blotches in the throat. Perianth tube 3-7 mm long; segments 8-35 x 2.5-10 mm. Filaments 4-8 mm; anthers 2-8 mm long. Style 8-14 mm; stigmas more or less at the anther tips. Capsules on erect or suberect peduncles.
Perennial herb, geophyte, 0.05-0.25 mm high; corm with crescent-shaped basal ridge of fibril clusters, tunics minutely pitted, brown; stem hidden by leaf bases. Leaves 3-6, mostly basal, narrowly 4-grooved, filiform. Bracts green, ovate; outer with membranous margins; inner with white or rarely brown-edged margins. Flowers 1-4, yellow or apricot-yellow, sometimes throat with dark blotches; perianth tube 3-7 mm long, funnel-shaped; tepals 8-35 x 2.5-10.0 mm, elliptic. Stamens erect, yellow or orange; filaments 4-8 mm long, pilose at base; anthers 2-7 mm long. Style 8-14 mm long; stigma 1-3 mm long. Flowering time July-Sept. Capsule ellipsoid, on (sub)erect peduncles.
Cormous geophyte, 50-250 mm tall, stem occasionally elongated, corm with an oblique basal ridge of fibril clusters. Leaves 3-6, mostly basal, narrowly 4-grooved. Flowers yellow to apricot, sometimes with dark marks at rim of cup; bracts green, outer with narrow hyaline margins, inner with broader hyaline margins occasionally brown-edged; fruiting peduncles suberect.
Cormous geophyte, 4-12 cm, corm with an oblique basal ridge, fibrils convergent in clusters. Basal leaves 2. Flowers yellow or apricot, sometimes with dark blotches at edge of cup; bracteole margins unmarked.
