Tufts to 20 cm diam.; stems short. Leaves flat, 8-36 cm long, 1-4 mm wide, striate, green, with white hairs 0.7-4.5 mm long in several ranks on each margin, otherwise glabrous or rarely hairy. Inflorescence capitate, of 5-10 flowers; scape 4-20 cm long, usually shorter than leaves; scapose bracts 1 or 2, 0.9-4.5 cm long and leaf-like; bracts subtending inflorescence short. Perianth 10-15 mm long, yellow, suffused red with age, woolly-tomentose with branched hairs outside, shortly woolly inside; lobes 5-9 mm long. Stamens biseriate; filaments 0.2-1.5 mm long; anthers 2-3.5 mm long. Style 6-11.5 mm long, ±equal to stamens.
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