Plants tufted, glabrous or hairy, 20–40 cm. high.. Rhizome small, moniliform, bearing fibrous remains of old leaf-bases; roots fibrous, many, with tubers near the tips.. Leaves distichous or nearly so, firm, filiform, clasping below, ciliate, 10–35 cm. long, 1–2 mm. wide.. Peduncle terete, ribbed.. Inflorescence unbranched; floral bracts small, dark brown, apiculate.. Pedicels articulated below the middle, 2–6 mm. long, 2–3-nate at the lower nodes.. Perianth white; tepals 7–10 mm. long, 5-veined, green, brown or rarely pinkish on the keel.. Stamens declinate, probably in 2+4 arrangement; filaments shorter than the anthers.. Style declinate, as long as the stamens.. Capsule shallowly lobed, 2–5 mm. long, transversely ridged.. Seeds irregularly folded, 1–1.5 mm. in diameter.
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