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Bulb ovoid to spherical, 2.1-2.7(-3.5) × (1.5-)1.8-2.5(-3) cm. Sheath 3-6 × 0.5-0.8 cm. Vernation supervolute. Leaves narrowly oblanceolate to oblanceolate (slightly to markedly broader in the middle to upper third), sometimes narrowed at the base, at flowering (4.8-)5.5-25(-28) × (0.7-)2-3.4(-3.6) cm, after flowering developing to 10-26(-32) × (0.7-)2.2-3.5(-3.7) cm, usually erect at maturity and infrequently slightly twisted (on the vertical axis); midrib conspicuous; margins flat; apex obtuse to acute, often with a short point at the tip, slightly to conspicuously hooded; surfaces smooth, sometimes with two (rarely four) longitudinal folds (leaves bent slightly upwards or slightly downwards); upper and lower surfaces the same colour, glaucous (blue-grey to grey), or infrequently glaucescent, matt. Scape 9-18 cm long, glaucous. Pedicel 14-31 mm long. Outer perianth segments obovate to broadly obovate or infrequently circular, or elliptic, 18-23(-27) × 1-15(-23) mm, slightly unguiculate to unguiculate. Inner perianth segments obovate to obtriangular, 10-12 × 6-8 mm, each segment with a sinus and an apical V- to U-shaped, or heart-shaped, green mark, sometimes the mark much larger and covering up to half of the segment, or each segment with two marks, one apical and one basal, the second (basal) mark at the base and covering up to slightly more than half of the segment, or mark a broad horizontal stripe, or rectangular to circular, infrequently this mark divided into two longitudinally, the apical and basal marks sometimes united to form one large X-shaped mark; inner face of each segment with a faint green mark similar to the mark(s) on the outer face. Anthers tapering to a long point. Capsule spherical, 10-16 mm in diameter. Seeds pale brown, c. 4 mm long. Flowering time February to May in nature; October to March in cultivation. |
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