Bulb ovoid, 15-25 mm diam.; outer covering fibrous, cream to brown; inner tunics yellowish; neck absent or reaching up to 40 mm long. Leaves absent at anthesis, 2, usually appressed to the ground, occasionally suberect, varying from obovate to ovate, elliptical or elliptical-lanceolate, 18-60 x 15-20 mm, narrowed to 2-4 mm at the base, with both surfaces glabrous, rarely the adaxial surface sparsely covered with long, white patent hairs (up to 3 mm long); margin minutely ciliate, sometimes reddened; subtended by a subterranean amplexicaul cataphyll and non-amplexicaul prophyll. Inflorescence widely spreading, (30-)40-80 mm across; scape erect to flexuose, 50-80 mm long, 1.5-3.0 mm diam., reddish towards the base, breaking off at the base in fruit; spathe valves narrowly lanceolate, up to 25 x 2-5 mm; bracteoles up to 10 mm long. Flowers (4-)6-14, spreading, stellate, pale pink with a deeper pink median dorsal stripe on each tepal, ageing to deep pink, scentless; pedicels straight to upwardly curved, 20-40 mm long. Tepals free to the base, outspread, oblong-lanceolate, 6-8 x 1.5-3.0 mm, plane-surfaced with somewhat undulate edges. Stamens equalling or somewhat shorter than the tepals, somewhat spreading; filaments separate, adnate to the swollen style base, somewhat bulbous proximally, anthers subcentrifixed, about 2 mm long and pink to wine-red before opening; pollen cream-coloured. Ovary with up to 2-3 ovules per locule. Style up to 6 mm long, more or less equalling the stamens, with a broad, somewhat conoidal base, tapering and slender distally, with nectar collecting in 3 droplets between the base and inner filaments. Seeds about 2 mm diam.
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Bulbous geophyte, 140-200 mm tall. Leaves 2, dry at flowering, prostrate, elliptical, both surfaces smooth or rarely sparsely hairy on upper surface, margin minutely fringed. Flowers in a spreading cluster, stellate, pink with darker pink median stripe on each tepal.
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