Plants variable, clumped or single, 10–40 cm. high.. Rhizome thick, horizontal to vertical, distinctly moniliform, occasionally tuberous, bearing fibrous remains of old leaf-bases; roots spongy, swollen at the base, tapering towards the tips.. Leaves often dimorphic, distichous or nearly so, ± clasping the base of the peduncle, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, glabrous or pubescent, sometimes ribbed with raised margin and ribs, 5–30 cm. long, 0.5–2(–5) cm. wide, outer ones wider and cataphyll-like, inner ones petiolate; margins scabrid or ciliate.. Peduncles papillate to pubescent particularly in the upper half, occasionally pubescent throughout, 5–40 cm. long.. Inflorescence a ± lax raceme, 5–15 cm. long; floral bracts oblanceolate, scabrid to ciliate on the margins, lower ones up to 2 cm. long.. Pedicels usually articulated below the middle, 3–6 mm. long, 2–3-nate at the lower nodes.. Perianth open, star-shaped; tepals 8–15 mm. long, 2.5–4 mm. wide, 3(–5)-veined, white, sometimes tinged greenish or brownish medially towards the tip outside.. Stamens shorter than the tepals; filaments filiform, 2.5–5 mm. long, sometimes broadened towards the base, papillate; anthers, 3.5–5 mm., often somewhat longer than the filaments, twisted when dry.. Style declinate.. Capsule shallowly 3-lobed to rounded-deltate in cross-section, smooth to slightly ridged, 5–9 mm. long and 6–8 mm. wide, slightly emarginate.. Seeds irregularly folded, ± 1.5–2 mm. in diameter.. Fig. 7.
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A small plant. It grows up to 15 cm high. The leaves grow from the base. The leaves are narrow and 5-15 cm long. They are 2-5 mm wide. The flowers are star like and white with a greenish tinge on the outside. The fruit is a capsule with shallow lobes.
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