Aristea singularis Weim.

Plants up to 400 mm high, forming diffuse tufts, somewhat trailing. Stems slightly flattened, rooting at aerial nodes, dichotomously branched. Leaves sword-shaped, 3-6 mm wide, fairly soft-textured. Flower clusters (1)2 per flowering stem, nodding, (1)2-flowered; spathes greenish-translucent becoming dry and torn above, ± 5 mm long, lightly lacerate, bracts similar but smaller. Flowers blue, pendent; tepals subequal, elliptic, 12-15 mm long. Filaments ± 2.5 mm long; anthers ± 4 mm long. Style obscurely 3-lobed. Capsules 3-lobed, ± 7 mm long. Seeds 1(2) per locule, compressed-ellipsoid, with a deeply sunken chalaza (doughnut-shaped), with funicle forming a pale fleshy body, surface smooth, epidermal cells domed.