Detail

A moderately compact bulbous herbaceous perennial. Bulbs are 5.0-6.0 cm diam at first flowering, maturing to 13.0 cm, producing 1-2 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 25-35 cm tall, 2-3 per bulb, each bearing 3-4 flowers per scape with pedicels 13-14 cm long. The spreading funnelform perianth is 14.5-16 cm long, laterally 15 cm and dorsoventrally 14 cm wide. The six tepals are of medium texture, and slightly ruffled along the margin. The outer tepals are 12.5-13 cm long, and 7-7.5 cm wide at their broadest; the inner tepals are 11.5-12 cm long, the inner laterals 6-6.5 cm wide; the ventral inner ca. 5.3 cm wide. The tepals are uniformly colored a highly reflective, almost fluorescent salmon-red, with RHSCC red 40C the closest match. The tepals have a diffused silvery white keel. All tepals have a white apiculum at their apex. The throat is green at the base of the tepals. A short thickened collar occurs at the throat. 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.