corm small, globose; coats thick, fibrous or cancellate; produced leaf one, basal, long, narrow linear, glabrous; stem long, very slender, terete, simple, or with 1–2 short, erect branches; spathes cylindrical, 1 1/2 in. long, 2–3-flowered; valves cuspidate, scarious only at the very tip; outer much shorter than inner; perianth fugitive, under an inch long, yellowish-brown, outer segments with a filiform claw about half as long as the spreading, oblong, cuspidate lamina, inner with a long claw, and three large linear cusps; ovary clavate, 1/4 in. long; style-column cylindrical, as long as the claw of the perianth-segments; crests of stigma large, lanceolate; capsule small, clavate-oblong, obtusely-angled. null
