Bulb solitary, ovoid, 11-20 mm diam., with outer tunics lightly fibrous and light greyish-brown, whitish within; neck up to 50 mm long. Leaves absent at anthesis, 2(-3), usually appressed to the ground, rarely suberect, varying from elliptical to ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 13-45 x 8-17 mm, leathery; adaxial surface dark green, pustulate and glutinous towards the margin; abaxial surface light green, sometimes flushed with red basally, smooth, subtended by a subterranean amplexicaul cataphyll and non-amplexicaul prophyll; seedlings glabrous or more or less pubescent. Inflorescence unilaterally spreading, 20-80 mm across; scape straight to somewhat flexuose, 35-110 mm long, 1-2 mm diam., green to reddish pink, breaking off at the base in fruit; spathe valves lanceolate, 10-25 x 2-5 mm; bracteoles up to 10 mm long. Flowers 4-11, somewhat secund and horizontally spreading, funnel-shaped, delicate pink or occasionally white, usually banded with darker pink dorsally, ageing to deep pink, without a scent; pedicels straight, 12-30 mm long, green to reddish pink. Tepals cut to the base, adnate to the base of the filaments for 2.5-8.0 mm, spreading slightly in the proximal two-thirds, becoming outspread distally, oblanceolate,14-23 x 2-3 mm, with the proximal half much attenuated into a narrow claw. Stamens longer than the tepals, slightly spreading; filaments separate, 15-24 mm long, adnate to the style base for 2.0-4.0 mm, subulate; anthers subcentrifixed, 2.5-3.0 mm long before opening, dark maroon; pollen cream-coloured. Ovary with up to 3-6(-8) ovules per locule. Style 11-21 mm long, equalling or slightly longer than the stamens, slightly thickened and trigonous proximally, tapering smoothly upwards, with nectar collecting in 3 sinuses formed by the attachment with the inner filaments. Seeds about 2 mm diam.
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