| Outer tunics |
coriaceous, milky brown |
papyraceous, dark brown |
| Scape |
12–15 cm × 5.5–6 mm, usually robust, firstly green, later greyish-green |
10–20 cm × 0.5–1 mm, usually thin, firstly green, later yellowish |
| Leaves |
(1–)2–4(–5), cylindrical, 7–8 cm × (2–)2.5–3.0 mm, scabrid, shorter than scape |
1–2(–3), filiform, cylindrical-semicylindrical, 10–20 cm × 0.5–1 mm, scaberulous, longer than scape or equal to scape |
| Spathe |
the longer 10–11 veined up to 8–10 cm; smaller 6–8 veined, up to 6–8 cm |
the longer 4–5 veined up to 2–2.5 cm; smaller (2–)3–4 veined, up to 1–1.5 cm |
| Inflorescence |
dense-effuse, 60–80 flowered, 4.5–5 cm diameter, pedicels almost equal or subequal, (1–)1.5–2(–2.5) cm, dark violet |
lax-effuse, 15–30 flowered, 1.5–2 cm diameter, pedicels subequal, 4–6 cm, greenish-grey |
| Tepals |
inners (4–)4.5–5 × 1.5–2(–2.5) mm, oblong, slightly mucronate at apex, distinctly brownish striated margins with dark greenish-purple midvein; outers (4–)4.5–5 × 2–2.5(–2.5) mm, oblong, distinctly mucronate at apex, whitish slightly pinkish striated margins with dark green midvein |
inners 3–4 × 0.5–1 mm, oblong-elliptic, rounded-obtuse at apex, yellowish-green with green midvein; outers 3–3.5 × 1–1.2(–1.5) mm, oblong, rounded at the apex, yellowishgreen with green midvein |
| Stamens |
connate at the base into an annulus no more than 1 mm high |
connate at the base into an annulus 1–1.2(–1.5) mm high |
| Anthers |
yellow but violet at margins, 0.8–1 × 0.4–0.5 mm |
yellow, 1–1.5 × 0.5–0.8 mm |
| Ovary |
oblong, sessile, 3.5–4 × 2–2.5 mm, papillose at apex |
lanceolate-ellipsoid, stipitate, 2–2.5 × 1–1.5 mm, not papillose narrowed at the apex |
| Style |
2.5–3 mm long |
1–1.5 mm long |
| Capsule |
globose 4.5–5 mm diameters; valves almost orbiculate, narrowed at base, truncate, surface rugose at the apex |
almost globose, narrowed at the base, 3.5–4 × 3.8–4 (–4.5) mm; valves obovoid, narrowed at base, slightly truncate, smooth at the apex |
| Seed |
3–4 × 2 mm |
2–2.5 × 1–1.5 mm |