Large tufted herb with an indumentum of silvery white scales on leaves and inflorescences. Leaves gradually acute, 60-230 cm long, 5-10 cm wide, green above, white below. Panicle large, exserted, 25-35 cm long; scape 25-60 cm long; spathes 5-8, large, foliaceous, each subtending a many-flowered slender raceme 10-21 cm long; pedicels thick, 3-10 mm long. Male flowers: perianth reddish, tube fleshy, c. 2 mm long, lobes 4-5 mm long, reflexed; stamens c. 3 mm long; anthers 1 mm long. Female flowers: perianth tube fleshy, to 3 mm long, becoming yellow when old, the lobes 5.5-6.5 mm long, reflexed; staminodes 1.3 mm long; ovules few, pendulous. Berry ovoid to globular, smooth, 6-10 mm long, orange. Seeds 4-12, smooth, c. 2.5 mm long.
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