Detail

A moderately tall bulbous herbaceous perennial. Bulbs are 4.0-5.0 cm diam at first flowering, maturing to 7.0-8.0 cm, producing 2-3 offset bulbs annually. Leaves are strap-shaped, green, two to four per bulb, 55-65 cm long, 4.8-5.5 cm wide. Scapes are 50-60 cm tall, usually 3 per bulb, each bearing four flowers per scape with pedicels 4-6 cm long. The spreading funnelform perianth is 14-15 cm long, laterally 15 cm and dorsoventrally 14 cm wide. The six tepals are of medium texture, and are undulate (ruffled along their margins. The outer tepals are 8-10 cm long, and 5-6 cm wide at their broadest; the inner tepals are 11-12 cm long, the inner laterals 6.5-7.5 cm wide; the ventral inner ca. 6 cm wide. The tepals are striated marginally with a pastel light orange on their adaxial surface, with RHSCC orange 28A the closest, with a broad white central keel. The throat is green at the base of the tepals, with a short ting of fimbrae at the throat. The tepals are similarly colored on their abaxial surfaces, with infusions of green towards the base. Stamens are 11 to 12 cm long, white for most of their length, green in the proximal 1.5 cm; pollen is yellow. The style is ca. 13 cm and colored similarly to the staminal filaments; the trifid stigma is ca. 6.5 mm wide.