Tufts small, 5-10 cm wide; stems short. Leaves flat, 15-30 cm long, 1-4.5 mm wide, green, glabrous except marginal hairs 0.5-2.5 mm long, prominently nerved. Inflorescence capitate with numerous flowers in a head 2-3 cm diam., subtended by 2 broad hyaline or coloured bracts; scape 4-17 cm long, usually with 1 median chaffy bract 2-3 cm long. Perianth 12-18 mm long, golden yellow, woolly-villous outside, sparingly hairy inside; lobes 8-12 mm long. Stamens uniseriate; anthers 4-7 mm long; filaments 0.1-1 mm long, ±dilated at base. Style 10-13.5 mm long, scarcely exceeding stamens; placenta dilated with several reflexed ovules.
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