Plant tufted; tufts robust, discrete, or sometimes stem shortly branched. Leaves flat, 10-40 cm long, 1.5-7 mm wide, green or blue-green, striate, glabrous except minutely denticulate-serrulate margins; nerves raised and pale; margins thin. Inflorescence a compact or loose many-flowered cyme; scape 0.8-3.3 cm long, with 1 or 2 chaffy bracts 1-4 cm long; pedicels to 6 mm long. Perianth 6.5-11.5 mm long, cream or dull yellow, with a smooth dense mat of branched hairs outside, glabrous inside; lobes 5.5-11 mm long, divided almost to ovary. Stamens reclined against perianth; anthers 3.5-5.5 mm long; filaments short, c. ⅓ as long as anthers. Style 3.5-5.5 mm long.
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