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Perennial, geophytic herb, 150-250 mm high; stems basally branched and uniseriately hairy or glabrous. Leaves longer than internodes, blade 10-40 x 2-5 mm, midrib hairy. Inflorescence 8-12-flowered, ± globose; peduncles up to 10 mm long, erect, pubescent. Flowers: pedicels up to 3 mm long; corolla dorsally greenish, cream-greenish inside, lobes apically reddish, 3 x 2 mm, narrowly triangular, margins revolute, apex recurved, papillose; corona lobes white, up to 8 mm long, basally stalk-like, abruptly triangularly broadened, apically long-attenuate, reaching over conical style head. Pollinia curved inwards, translators broad. Flowering time Sept.-Apr., with peak in Jan., Feb. Fruit finely pubescent, 30-50 x 3-7 mm.
Perennial, geophytic herb, 150-250 mm high. Leaves with blade narrowly ovate. Flowers: inflorescence pedunculate; pedicels 3-6 mm long; corona with apical horn upright or bending outward, solid cylindrical throughout, side flanks markedly extended to form keels; corona lobes 5 mm long, dark purple with whitish margins; corolla cup-shaped, edge revolute, tips recurved, yellowish green outside, cream-coloured to pale pink inside; Sep.-Dec. Fruit a follicle.
A herb with a taproot. It grows 30 cm high. It can keep growing from year to year. The roots are long and spindle shaped. They are 30 cm long by 5 cm wide. The stems are usually branched. The leaves are narrow. They are 7 cm long by 5 mm wide. They are slightly hairy on the upper surface. The flowers are small and brownish-green. They are in groups on long flowering stalks.
Perennial herb, 150-250 mm tall. Inflorescence pedunculate; pedicels 3-6 mm long. Corona lobes 5 mm long. Flowers yellowish green; corona dark purple with whitish margins.
