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Succulent, acaulescent, perennial herb; rosettes erect, dividing, with rhizomatous base. Leaves grey-green, strap-shaped, laxly twisted, up to 0.35 m long, erect to spreading-erect, distichous. Inflorescence erect, up to 0.85 m high, with dense raceme; bracts white, membranous, base auriculate, apex caudate, margins entire; pedicels appressed to rachis when barren. Flowers yellow. Flowering time Feb.-Apr., Sept.-Nov.
Succulent, perennial herb; acaulescent, base rhizomatous. Leaves distichous; strap-shaped, laxly twisted, up to 350 mm long, grey-green. Flowers: inflorescences 1 or 2, erect, raceme dense, compacted; bracts white, membranous, apex caudate, base auriculate, margins entire; pedicels adpressed to rachis when barren; perianth yellow; Feb.-Apr., Sep.-Nov. Fruit with capsule not inflated.
Leaves 3–10, erect, glaucous, sheathing at the base; the bases with broad hyaline margins and successively overlapping bases of inner leaves to form a short column; blade thickly fleshy, 15–40 cm long and 0.5–2 cm wide, linear to narrowly strap-shaped, ± obliquely rounded or acute at the apex and mucronate.
Seeds 1–3 per locule, c. 2–3.5 mm long, pyramidal, narrowly winged on the angles, convex on the outer face with 2–3 flat inner faces tapering to the point of attachment, black, with a pattern of reticulate ridges on the surface.
Acaulescent perennial herb, up to 400 mm tall. Leaves flat, linear-lanceolate to linear, 100-240 x 5-10 mm. Inflorescence with bracts lanceolate-deltoid, membranous, white. Flowers bright yellow.
Rhizome 1–3 × 0.8–1 cm, small and hemispherical to subcylindrical; roots numerous spreading long, fleshy fusiform.
Perennial herb 25–60(85) cm tall, glabrous, usually with 1–2 plants from a vertical or ± inclined woody rhizome.
Filaments c. 4–5 mm long, all densely bearded about the middle with long ± fine hairs; anthers 1.2–1.5 mm long.
Tepals yellow, up to c. 7 mm long, the inner c. 3(4) mm wide, the outer 2.5(3.5) mm wide, persistent.
Capsule not inflated when mature, up to 8 mm long and 5.5 mm wide, obovoid, shallowly 3-lobed.
Peduncle 1 per plant, erect, stoutly terete, 15–40 cm long, up to 6 mm diameter at the base.
Style c. 3.5 mm long, terete.
Aerial stems absent.
