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Succulent, acaulescent or almost caulescent, perennial herb; rosettes erect, dividing, with rhizomatous base. Leaves dark green, semi-terete, up to 0.57 m long, erect, in basal rosette. Inflorescence erect to curved-erect, up to 1 m high, with lax to slightly compact raceme; bracts white, base subauriculate, apex filiform-caudate, margins lacerate-lanate towards base; pedicels recurved to recurved-recoiled when barren. Flowers yellow. Flowering time all year.
Succulent, perennial herb; acaulescent or almost caulescent, base rhizomatous. Leaves in a basal rosette; blade semiterete, up to 0.57 m long, dark green. Flowers: inflorescences several, erect to curved, raceme lax to slightly compact; bracts white, apex filiform-caudate, base subauriculate, margins deeply divided, hairy towards base; pedicels recurved to recurved-recoiled when barren; perianth yellow; Jan.-Dec. Fruit with capsule not inflated.
Leaves 6–numerous, closely spaced on a contracted stem or apparently basal, erect to arching, fleshy grass-like, ± abruptly expanded and sheathing at the base; the bases broadly hyaline-winged, successively overlapping bases of inner leaves; blade 10–30(50) cm long and 2–5 mm wide, linear-terete, flat or concave on the adaxial surface and tapering to the apex, expanded and winged in the lower 1–3 cm.
Seeds 2–4 per locule, 1–1.5 mm long, 3-sided, with sharp angles, brownish-black, sometimes with pale dots and/or a ± reticulate pattern of low sharp incipient ridges on the surface.
Stems 0–7 cm long, simple or branched, woody, sheathed by persistent closely overlapping hyaline-margined leaf bases, with adventitious roots in older plants.
Peduncle usually 1 per branch, ascending-erect, terete, ± fleshy becoming stoutly rigid, up to c. 43 cm long and 2–4 mm in diameter.
A bulb or lily plant. It grows 25-60 cm tall. It keeps growing from year to year. The roots can be spreading and fleshy.
Capsule not inflated when mature, substipitate, c. 4 mm long and 5 mm wide, 3-lobed, depressed at the apex.
Perennial herb 25–60 cm tall, erect, glabrous; plants clustered, few to many arising from a woody rhizome.
Filaments c. 2–3 mm long, densely bearded in the upper part with long yellow hairs; anthers c. 1 mm long.
Tepals yellow, up to 6 mm long, inner 3 mm wide, outer 2 mm wide, elliptical, persistent.
Rhizome 1–5(10) × 0.6–1 cm, subcylindrical with spreading fibrous to ± fleshy roots.
Style c. 3 mm long, terete.
