Plant tufted; tufts to 20 cm diam.; stems unbranched. Leaves terete or flat, 10-40 cm long, 1-4 mm wide, green, rarely grey-white, glabrous or rarely hirsute, usually prominently nerved. Inflorescence capitate, many-flowered, emerging just above ground level or on a loosely woolly scape usually 2-7 cm long, rarely to 15 cm; bracts 2 or 3, broadly ovate to lanceolate, membranous, woolly to glabrous, green; pedicels to 1 mm long. Perianth 12-20 mm long, yellow or greenish yellow, bearing long rigid, simple or minutely denticulate hairs to 4 mm long outside, not woolly, glabrous inside; lobes 9-12.5 mm long. Anthers 3.5-6 mm long; filaments 0.5-1.5 mm long. Style 8-12 mm long, exceeding anthers.
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