Tufts small; scapes rarely more than 4; stems short. Leaves flat, 15-30 cm long, 1.5-4 mm wide, striate, green, glabrous except 2 or more ranks of long white hairs 0.8-5.4 mm long on each margin. Inflorescence densely cymose or capitate, to 5-6 cm diam.; scape 8-35 cm long; scapose bract median, leaf-like, 3-4 cm long. Perianth 12-20 mm long, white, or pinkish maroon to purple, silky-tomentose with branched hairs outside, ±woolly inside; lobes 6-10.5 mm long, spreading, white inside. Stamens ±uniseriate; filaments 2-4 mm long; anthers 2.8-3.8 mm long, usually shorter than filaments. Style 8.4-12 mm long, ±equal to stamens.
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