Sturdy erect, compact bushes c. 0.35 m tall, setulose, setae short, white; chamaephytes with a hard gnarled root-crown and woody roots. Stems erect, firm, setulose or smooth, internodes c. 50 mm long. Leaves folded, linear, c. 50 x 10 mm, apex cirrhose to acuminate-recurved, base merging into a short, open, light greyish green sheath, margins undulate, forming a thick white rim. Spathes terminal, opposite the upper leaves, subsessile, fused, triangular, apex acuminate, recurved, c. 25 mm long. Cymes 2, upper much exserted on a hairy peduncle c. 25 mm long, with one male flower, petals pale blue to lilac, large; lower cyme c. 3-flowered, flowers bisexual, petals c. 20 mm; stamens 3, two normal with blue locules, central curled up with a large connective, filaments white; staminodes with purple filaments and orange-yellow antherodes consisting of 4 bulbous organs and 2 smaller ones; ovary narrowly ovoid, style exserted below. Capsule oblong-globose, hard, c. 10 mm long, 3-seeded; seeds smooth (no normal ripe capsule seen).
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Erect, dwarf shrub, up to 350 mm tall. Capsule triangular. Cymes 51 mm each spathe, both lower and upper well developed. Leaf margin white, undulate. Spathes sessile, clustered at apices. Flowers large, petals ± 20 mm in diameter. Flowers pale blue to lilac.
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