Plant glabrous throughout. Rhizome surrounded by a dense collar of persistent fibers from disintegrated leaf bases. Leaves 5 to numerous, usually laxly tufted, linear, 2--20 cm × 2--7(--9) mm. Scape 7--40 cm. Raceme 2--15 cm, not covered with viscid secretion, laxly 5--40-flowered. Flowers distinctly pedicellate; pedicel 1--10 mm; bract borne at or near base of pedicel, narrowly lanceolate, 3--9(--16) mm, shorter than flower (rarely a few bracts at base of raceme slightly longer than flower), apex obtuse to subacute; bracteole borne on proximal 1/2 of pedicel above bract. Perianth yellowish, whitish, or pinkish, 4--5 mm; tube broadly funnelform; lobes strongly recurved or revolute, narrowly oblong or oblong, 2--3 × ca. 1 mm, 1.5--2 × tube length, apex obtuse to rounded or truncate. Capsule narrowly ovoid, 4.5--7 × 2.5--3.5 mm, apex of valves abruptly narowed; style 0.5--2 mm; stigma conspicuously thickened, capitate. Fl. Jul--Sep, fr. Sep--Oct.
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