Plant solitary or rarely forming 2-3-bodied clusters. Sheath pale brown, membraneous, impersistent; body rather soft, 10-30 x 8-25 x 6-12 mm, thickly cylindrical, bilobed at the apex, lobes very much rounded; epidermis very shortly papillate, smooth, not glossy except when well-soused, brownish-ochre to reddish or bronze-green, never bright green, often paler at the margins, always windowed, fenestration continuing as isolated tear-shaped micro-windows on the upper sides; fissure deep, papillate, sometimes gaping and pustulate. Flowers autumnal, diurnal, slightly scented or scentless. Bracts easily visible, fat, windowed; calyx-tube herbaceous, sepals (4-)6(-7), 3-5 mm long; corolla-tube partially adnate to the calyx-tube, 6-10 mm long, petals 25-55 in 2-5 series, to 15 mm long, 2 mm wide, translucent white to ivory or pinkish, inner petals short, erect, and filamentaceous, stamens ca. 50, 4-seriate, pollen copious; stigmas 5-6, 10-20 mm long. Capsule 5-6-locular, soft, pale brownish to grey, seeds 0.60 x 0.35 x 0.30 mm, densely tuberculate, tubercles fine and pale.
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