Devia

Deciduous perennials.Rootstocka depressed-globose corm rooting from below, basal in origin, tunics of coarse fibres accumulating in a dense mass.Stemaerial, branched, terete, sheathed below by a thick, coarsely fibrous neck.Leavesseveral, lower 2 or 3 cataphylls; foliage leaves unifacial, with a definite midrib, mostly basal, linear, oval in transverse section, midrib and a second pair of veins on either side heavily thickened, surface thus with 2 narrow longitudinal grooves on each surface, margins unthickened, edged by narrow grooves, dry or becoming dry at flowering time, cauline leaves few and reduced.Inflorescencea spike, flowers secund; bracts coriaceous, dry at anthesis, inner +/- as long as outer and notched apically.Flowersactinomorphic, trumpet-shaped, pink, unscented, with nectar from septal nectaries; perianth tube narrowly funnel-shaped.Tepalssubequal, suberect, enclosing filaments.Stamenssymmetrically disposed, rotated counterclockwise; filaments arising in throat; anthers opposite inner tepals, facing inward, exserted from flower; pollen monosulcate, operculate, exine perforate.Styleeccentric, branches short, notched apically.Capsulesglobose, cartilaginous, lightly verrucose above.Seedsglobose, flattened at chalazal end, hard and shiny, 1 or 2 per locule, smooth, surface laevigate, raphal vascular trace excluded.x= 10.