Plant forming large clusters (± 50-100 bodies!). Sheath brownish-yellow, thin, persistent and usually wholly enveloping the body when at rest; body 22-30 x 18-25 x 7-12 mm, cylindrical to obcordate, bilobed at the apex, lobes rounded, often divergent, rather soft; epidermis glabrous or faintly papillate, glassy when turgid, bright shining green, often reddish-green when young, ‘bleached’ yellowish-green when stressed, strongly windowed at the apex, with some scattered windows extending down the upper sides; fissure gaping, papillate. Flowers autumnal, diurnal, slightly to strongly scented of cherry blossoms, often paired, the second flower occurring a month or more later. Bracts exserted but relatively small, acute, bright green; calyx-tube herbaceous, sepals 6, 3-5 mm long; corolla-tube very shortly adnate to the calyx-tube, 6-10 mm long, petals 25-55 in 2-3 series, 10-15 mm long, 2-3 mm wide, pale pink, rose pink, to white, inner petals short, erect, and filamentaceous, stamens ca. 40, 3-4-seriate; stigmas (4-)6, 10-20 mm long, yellow to saffron yellow, plumose. Capsule (4-)6-locular, 4 x 3 mm, depressed-globose, soft, pale brownish to grey, seeds 0.60 x 0.45 x 0.40 mm, densely tuberculate, tubercles fine, dark brown.
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