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Plants 60-200 mm long. Corm with a very small ridge on a pointed base. Leaves several, filiform with an adaxial groove, 60-200 x 0.5-1(-1.5) mm, finely ciliate. Bracts reaching above to below the middle of the perianth tube. Flowers (50-)65-100 mm long, the limb (25-)40-55 mm across, pale to bright violet or sometimes white, with an orange-yellow throat. Perianth tube (30-)45-70 mm long, widened at the top to 3 mm in diam.; segments obovate to oblanceolate, often slightly concave, (12-)18-28 mm x (5-)7-10 mm, obtuse or subobtuse. Filaments 5-8 mm, yellow, anthers 5-8 mm long. Style 50-75 mm, pale yellow; stigmas linear, reaching more or less the anther tips. Capsule clavate, 15-20 mm long; seeds brown with a rather coarse reticulate-foveate testa.
Perennial herb, geophyte, 0.08-0.15 m high; corm asymmetric, with very small ridge on pointed base. Leaves several, filiform with adaxial groove, 60-200 x 0.5-1.5 mm, finely ciliate. Bracts 20-45 mm long, membranous, reaching ± middle of perianth tube. Flowers 1-4, 65-100 mm long, pale to bright violet, sometimes white; throats orange; perianth tube 45-70 mm long, widened at top for 3 mm; tepals 18-28 x 7-10 mm, obovate to oblanceolate, often concave, obtuse. Filaments 5-8 mm long, yellow; anthers 5-8 mm long. Style 50-75 mm long, pale yellow; stigma 4-5 mm long, linear. Flowering time Sept.-June. Capsule clavate. Seeds brown with coarse reticulate-foveate testa.
Cormous geophyte, up to 150 mm high. Corm with a very small ridge on a pointed base. Leaves several; blade filiform, 60-200 x 0.5-1.5 mm. Flowers: perianth with throat yellow or orange-yellow, tube 45-70 mm long, segments 65-100 mm long, pale to bright violet and orange-yellow; Mar.
Geophyte with leaves up to 200 mm long. Corm with a very small ridge on a pointed base. Leaves several, filiform, 60-200 x 0.5-1.5 mm. Throat of perianth yellow or orange-yellow. Flowers 65-100 mm long tube 45-70 mm long, pale to bright violet and orange-yellow.
