Low, clumped shrub to 1 m tall when in flower, c. 40 cm tall when vegetative. Leaves filiform to narrowly terete, 3-20 cm long, 0.3-1.25 mm wide, ascending, incurved to spirally coiled. Inflorescence a ±terminal spike; peduncle 10-84 cm long, glabrous to puberulous; bracteoles ovate, 1.5-3.5 (-5.2) mm long, 1.5-2 (-4) mm wide, blue, glabrous, with cuspidate apices and ciliate margins. Perianth pale blue to cream, glabrous; tube 1.5-4.5 mm long; upper lip ovate, 2.75-4 mm long, 1-2.4 mm wide, acute, recurved; lower lip united for 2-4.2 mm; lobes narrowly oblong, 0.6-1.5 mm long, 0.4-0.5 mm wide with an acute apex. Nut 2-2.9 mm long, 2-2.5 mm wide, golden-brown-to orange-tomentose; circumference hairs 0.5-1.5 mm long, cream to reddish orange; apex of nut patterned black and white; central tuft 1-1.5 mm long, orange to cream.
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