| Description |
Flowering stem 550mm (including inflorescence), 20mm in diameter, robust, slightly twisting becoming quite ridged in inflorescence, very pale green becoming strongly flushed purple toward and within inflorescence. Inflorescence 450mm long, 80mm wide at base, 90mm at top, club-shaped, cylindrical. Coma of bracts (c. 25), 60mm in diameter, mid green (144A flushed 146B), lanceolate, 40mm long, 15mm wide. Pedicel 40mm long, 2mm in diameter, stiff, grey-brown (199A) flushed bright pinkish-purple (78B). Perianth 15mm diam., 6 ovate lobes, grey pinkish-purple (156C) flushed green on reverse, lobes tipped with pale yellow, ovary, stigma and filaments prominent, dark purple (187B), anthers yellow. Perianth at anthesis has white centre with purple (78B) lobes, darker tone on reverse. Bracts small, 10mm long, 3mm wide, lanceolate, purple (187B). |
