Plant I m. or more long when extended. Leaves to 12 dm. long; sheaths elliptic, large; blades linear-triangular, acuminate, 3 cm. wide, sparsely serrate with nearly straight teeth to 3 mm. long, entire toward apex, densely pale-lepidote, gray-green, marked below with large white spots. Scape decurved, 3-4 mm. thick, sparsely white-floccose at first. Scape-bracts im-bricate, lanceolate, acuminate, to 24 cm. long, membranaceous, white-floccose. Inflorescence simple, cylindric, to 4 dm. long, lax, many-flowered, densely white-farinose. Floral bracts spread-ing or reflexed, narrowly oblong or the uppermost ovate, obtuse and apiculate, to 35 mm. long, all but the uppermost equaling or exceeding the ovary, membranaceous, dark brown when dry. Flowers sessile, suberect to spreading. Sepals symmetric, broadly ovate, broadly acute and apiculate, equal, 10 mm. long, coriaceous, nerved. Petals linear, acute, to 43 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, bronze-green, spirally recurved at anthesis, bearing 2 coarsely crenate scales at base. Ovary subglobose, 15 mm. long, coarsely sulcate with the ridges soon glabrous, epigynous tube 3 mm. long.