Description:
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Bulb up to 14 cm wide, ending in a thick neck; leaves in rosette, margins undulate and scabrid, lower ± prostrate, central leaves suberect, median leaves 6-7 cm broad and up to 60 cm long; scape suberect, ± 50 cm long, often tinged purplish brown, compressed; spathe valves 8-9 cm long, fading early and reflexed; flowers 6-11, erect (buds erect at first then pendulous and erect again as flower opens); pedicels 1.3-4 cm long; perianth tube slender, 9-15 cm long, usually tinged brownish; segments white or pale pink with a dorsal purplish or brownish-red band down middle, 5.5-8 x 1-1.3 cm; stamens arcuate, erect; filaments reddish in upper two thirds, anthers slender, greyish-brown, ± 1.6 cm long; style red; fruits long beaked. |