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Information Plant to 70 cm high. Rootstock a corm with rhizomatous base, ovoid, 1.5–2.7 cm long, 1–1.5 cm in diameter. Leaves 8–10, linear, 17–50 cm long, 0.35–0.7 cm wide, apex obtuse, base sheathing. Scape 39–70 cm long. Umbel 11-flowered, opening in succession, erect or patent, bright purple; pedicels 10–20 mm long. Perianth tube cylindrical, 8–10 mm long, lobes 6–7 mm long, 1.5–2.8 mm wide, elliptic, apex acute with slightly inrolled margin, one distinct mid-vein sometimes giving the lobe a keeled appearance; corona of 3 distinct lobes, 2.5–3 mm long, 1–1.5 mm wide, oblong, apex retuse; stamens included in perianth tube, upper series 2–2.5 mm below mouth, lower series ± 6 mm from base; anthers 1 mm long; ovary oblong to obovoid, 2.5 mm long, 1.5 mm in diameter; ovules numerous; style 1 mm long, 0.4 mm in diameter; stigma capitate, small. Capsule and seeds not seen.

Information Plant to 45 cm high. Rootstock a small corm 1.5–2.5 cm in diameter, with rhizomatous base, covered by membranous, reddish brown leaf-bases. Leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, 12.5–37 cm long, 0.18–0.8(–1) cm wide, apex rounded, margin entire, base sheathing and persistent, glabrous. Scape 1–2 per plant, 8–32 cm long. Inflorescence an umbel with 6–9(–12) scented flowers and a pair of involucral bracts; bracts pinkish, membranous, unequal, larger bract 2.7–3.3 cm long, 0.3–0.5 cm wide, smaller bract 2–2.1 cm long, 0.15–0.2 cm wide, lanceolate with long-attenuate apex, margin entire, base amplexicaul, larger bract partially enclosing the smaller; pedicels 0.6–2.7 cm long. Perianth greenish white to pale purplish; tube 5–8 mm long, cylindrical in young flowers, becoming urceolate, lobes 6, in 2 whorls set 2–3 mm apart, lanceolate to lanceolate-elliptic, 5–10 mm long, 1–2 mm wide, apex acute, with 1 main median nerve, white tinged with purple or green; corona cylindrical tocampanulate, 3-lobed, somewhat fleshy, bright yellow to orange, 3.5–5 mm long, margin irregularly and shallowly lobed, lobes to 1 mm; anthers 6, sessile, 1–2 mm long, one series of 3 inserted at mouth of corona, sometimes slightly exserted, one series inserted below at base of corona or where corona is fused to perianth tube, ± 5.5 mm above base of perianth tube; ovary subglobose, 2.5–3.5 mm long, 2.5–3 mm diameter; style 0.8–1 mm long, 0.5–0.8 mm in diameter, not exserted; stigma capitate, papillate. Capsule sub-globose, 3-lobed, 4–4.5 mm long, 3–5 mm in diameter, each locule 1–2-seeded. Seeds 3–3.5 mm long, sub-crescent shaped with 2 angles on inner face, surface rough. Fig. 1 (page 3).