Stem usually simple and 1-flowered, about 15 cm. Leaves and bracts linear-lanceolate, acute more or less imbricate, up to 4 mm. Perianth tube geniculate; part below knee c. 3 mm, pink with longitudinal striae; the c. 5 mm long, upper part and limb chocolate-brown; perianth mouth yellow. Perianth lobes lanceolate, about 7 mm, tapering to filiform tentacles. Annulus prominent, slightly 6-lobed. Anthers quadrangular, provided with a thick hair on both sides of the free, apical margin and a broad, wing-like appendage, inserted on the midline of the connective. Stigmas oblong, bifid. Fruit stalk elongate.
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