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Plants 40-100 mm long. Corm almost obovoid, oblique at the base, with a basal ridge 4-6 mm long. Leaves 5-8, filiform or somewhat flattened, with an adaxial groove, 15-60 x 0.8-1.5(-2) mm, curved or flexuose, sometimes with a clockwise twist. Bracts 15-25 mm long, usually with fine, short brown lines. Flowers (25-)30-50 mm long, the limb (16-)20-25(-30) mm across, violet or violet-blue, the throat yellow, orange-yellow, white or violet. Perianth tube (15-)20-33 mm long, c. 1 mm in diam., widened to 3 mm at the top; segments obovate, slightly concave, (8-)10-15 x (3-)4-5 mm, obtuse to subacute. Filaments 3-4(-8) mm, white, yellow or sometimes purple; anthers exserted, about as long as the filaments. Style (20)25-40 mm; stigmas with the tips sometimes slightly widened. Capsule turbinate, 8-25 mm long.
Stemless, cormous geophyte, 40-60 mm tall, corm top-shaped. Leaves several, filiform, in a basal tuft, often twisted, smooth or lightly hairy. Flowers borne singly, blue to violet with a white or yellow centre.
Cormous geophyte, 4-10 cm, corm turbinate. Leaves 5-8, filiform, often twisted. Flowers blue to violet with white or yellow centre, tube 15-30 mm.
