Tufts to 20 cm diam. Leaves subterete, 10-30 cm long, 0.5-1.5 mm wide, grey-green, densely hirsute with a fine tomentum of appressed plumose white hairs c. 1 mm long; marginal hairs erect, equal to lamina hairs. Inflorescence simple, head-like, several-flowered; scape 5-8 cm long with a scarious, tomentose median bract. Perianth 6-9 mm long, pale lemon-yellow outside, remaining so with age; lobes 4-5.5 mm long, cream inside, golden yellow towards base. Stamens biseriate; anthers 2-4 mm long, equal to filaments in upper series, much longer in lower series. Style 5-7 mm long.