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Leaves numerous, erect to arching, fleshy grass-like, ± abruptly expanded and sheathing at the base; the bases broadly winged, successively overlapping bases of inner leaves, persisting as a column of shiny yellowishscarious sheaths; column (3)4–8 × 0.5–1 cm; blade ± fleshy, mostly 10–25 cm long and c. 2 mm in diameter, linear-terete, ± channelled on the adaxial surface and tapering to the apex; wings clasping, hyaline, up to 8 mm wide on each side of the blade base,abruptly narrowing into the blade.
Succulent, perennial herb; acaulescent, base rhizomatous, overtopped by persistent leaf-bases. Leaves in a basal rosette; blade, terete, up to 400 mm long, light green. Flowers: inflorescences 1-3, erect to slightly curved, raceme dense, capitate; bracts transparent, white when dry, apex acuminate-caudate, base auriculate, margins entire; perianth yellow; Jul.-Jan. Fruit with capsule not inflated.
Seeds 1–2 per locule, 2–3 mm long, pyramidal, not winged, convex on the outer face with 2–3 flat inner faces tapering to the point of attachment, brownish-black, sometimes with a reticulate pattern of low sharp incipient ridges on the surface.
Caespitose perennial herb, up to 200 mm tall. Tufts of leaves united at base in a slender, cylindrical column, whitish, ± 50 mm long and 5 mm in diameter. Racemes subcorymbose, 40-100 mm long, up to 40 mm in diameter. Flowers yellow.
Perennial herb 20–45 cm tall from a woody rhizomatous base; plants small erect glabrous, several clustered on a vertical rhizome, or few to many closely spaced along an inclined rhizome.
Capsule not inflated when mature, stipitate, c. 6–7 mm long and 4–5 mm wide, ovoid to obovoid and slightly depressed at the apex, shallowly 3-lobed.
Peduncle 1 per plant, erect, terete, ± fleshy becoming stoutly rigid, up to c. 25 cm long and 3 mm in diameter.
Tepals yellow, up to c. 6 mm long, the inner c. 3.5 mm wide, the outer c. 2.5 mm wide, elliptical, persistent.
Filaments c. 2–3 mm long, densely bearded in the upper part with long yellow hairs; anthers c. 1.5 mm long.
Rhizomes 1–5 × 0.6–1 cm, subcylindrical with spreading fibrous to ± fleshy roots.
Style c. 3 mm long, terete.
Aerial stems absent.
