Tufts to 15 cm diam. Leaves flat, 7-18 cm long, 1-3 mm wide; margins prominent, glabrous or with softly appressed plumose hairs 0.8-1.7 mm long. Inflorescence capitate, many-flowered; scape 4-12.5 cm long, as long as or shorter than leaves, with a leaf-like bract 14-33 mm long near base and 2 shorter, leaf-like bracts subtending inflorescence. Perianth 7-12 mm long, yellow ageing reddish, loosely tomentose outside with branched hairs and a few longer hairs near base, shortly woolly inside; lobes 4-8 mm long. Stamens uniseriate or very slightly biseriate; filaments 1 mm long; anthers 3-5 mm long. Style 5.5-10 mm long.
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