Description:
Fruit appendages: Winged with ridges and grooves
Fruit Colour: Straw colouredFruit Length: Greater than 10mm
Fruit shape: Cylindrical on downward curving scapes that straighten at maturitySeed Colour: Reddish brown
Seed Length: 1 - 2mm
Seed Sculpture: RugoseSeed Shape: Trianular
Small herb; corm globose; aerial stem absent.
Leaves several, basal, 8–40 cm long, 1–2.5 mm wide, compressed, grooved, tough.
Scapes 2–5, 3–12 cm long; outer bract narrow-triangular, 10–15 mm long, herbaceous; inner bract slightly shorter, herbaceous with wide scarious margins, often finely brown-striate. Perianth tube 2–4 mm long, yellow; lobes elliptic, acute, 10–18 mm long, 3–4 mm wide, pale to bright pink, rarely white; outer tepals dark-striped or greenish outside. Style 7–9 mm long; stigmas exceeded by anthers.
Capsule cylindrical, c. 1 cm long, on decurved scapes that straighten at maturity
Source: Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust
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