Detail

A relatively compact bulbous herbaceous perennial. Bulbs are 4.5-5.0 cm diam at first flowering, maturing to 7.0-8.0 cm, producing 1-2 offset bulbs annually. Leaves are green two to four per bulb, 25-45 cm long, 4.5-5 cm wide. Scapes are 40-50 cm tall, usually 3 per bulb, each bearing four flowers per scape with pedicels 4-6 cm long. The spreading funnelform perianth is 12-13 cm long, laterally 15 cm and dorsally 14 cm wide. The six tepals are of medium texture. The outer tepals are 9-10 cm long, and 4.5-5 cm wide at their broadest; the inner tepals are 12-12.5 cm long, the inner laterals 6-7 cm wide; the ventral inner ca. 5 cm wide. The tepals are densely striated a reflective red-purple-pink on their adaxial surface, with RHSCC red-purple 57A the closest match, underlain with a faint white background, but with a prominent white blotch at the apex of each tepal. The outer lateral tepals have faint white keels. The inner lateral tepals are marked a deeper red on either side of the keel at their base. The throat is green, with a short ring of fimbrae at the throat. The tepals are similarly colored on their abaxial surfaces, with infusions of green to maroon towards the base. Stamens are 10 to 11.2 cm long, concolorous with the perianth 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. 7 mm wide.