Stem 12-14 in. high, simple, slender, sparsely leafy, pilose; leaves erect, subequalling or a little longer than the internodes, 2-3 1/4 in. long, 1-1 1/2 lin. broad, linear, acute, narrowed into a very short petiole at the base, with revolute margins, pilose on both sides; umbels lateral at the nodes or falsely terminal, pedunculate, 6-8-flowered; peduncle about 7 lin. long, erect, slender, pilose; pedicels about half as long as the peduncle, filiform, pilose; sepals half as long as the corolla, lanceolate, acute, pilose; corolla-lobes spreading, 1/4 in. long, scarcely 2 lin. broad, ovate, somewhat obtuse, silky-pilose, with silky-villous margins, white; corona-lobes erect, slightly exceeding the staminal column, cucullate, obtuse, obliquely truncate at the apex, with a small porrect tooth on the margin on each side above the middle, inflexed upon the stigma (style-apex), greenish-brown; anther-appendages suborbicular, rounded, inflexed upon the stigma (style-apex).
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Perennial, geophytic herb. Stems solitary, erect, 300-330 mm high. Leaves linear, 23-110 x 1.5-4.0 mm, base cuneate, apex acuminate, margins revolute. Inflorescences (4-)8-flowered; peduncle 13-30 mm long. Flowers cream-coloured to creamy green; corolla lobes rotate, 5.2-5.8 x 2.8-3.1 mm, margins with villous white hairs; staminal column 2.8-3.0 mm high, not stipitate. Corona: lobes taller than wide, 1.8-2.0 mm high, (0.8-)1.7-2.0 mm wide, upper proximal edge dentate, 0.7-0.8 mm long and projecting onto style-stigma-head, and upper distal ends blunt, upper ± straight and level with style-stigma-head. Anther transversely elliptic with cleft apex, ± 0.5 x 1.0 mm.
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