Tufts to 30 cm diam.; stems very short. Leaves flat, 5-30 cm long, 1.5-5.5 mm wide, striate, green, with prominent fibrous margins, glabrous except marginal hairs 0.4-1 mm long, rarely loosely villous. Inflorescence a dense or ±loose head of 6-8 flowers in 2 or 3 rows; scape 2-12 cm long, usually with a single brown membranous median bract 5-30 mm long. Perianth fawnish cream, 4-15 mm long, with a velvety tomentum of branched hairs outside; lobes 3-9 mm long, claw-like, especially in fruit. Stamens uniseriate; filaments short; anthers 3-6 mm long. Style 4-10 mm long, ±equal to stamens.
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