Geophyte, 70-300 mm tall, tuber small with laterally spreading roots. Leaves 4-20, arising in a tuft from a short bristly neck or a membranous sheath mostly up to 20 mm or rarely up to 40 mm long, succulent, pale green with a grey metallic sheen, covered with microscopic, elongated, whitish micropapillae, curving inwards from an acute tip when withering, margin usually with a few, widely spaced, blunt hairs below. Flowers in a wiry raceme with a curved scape, yellow. Capsule ellipsoidal, ± 3 mm long.
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