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Perennial herb, geophyte, 0.8-1.0 m high; stem irregularly branching. Leaves light greyish green, arranged distichously, linear-ensiform, 15-22 mm wide. Bracts tubular. Spathe 45-50 mm long, apex obtuse to emarginate. Inflorescence with pale yellow flowers; nectar guides orange-brown or occasionally flushed blue; claw spotted; outer tepals with horizontal limbs; inner tepals up to 38 mm long. Stamens free; filaments 4-6 mm long, broadened at base. Ovary cylindrical, green, 10-14 mm long; style fused near base, petaloid, 2-3 mm long; branches yellow with 2 mauve stripes. Flowering time Mar.-? Capsule ovoid, pendulous, smooth, irregularly dehiscing.
Perennial, evergreen herb, up to 0.7 m high. Capsule pendent, smooth-walled and without a beak. Leaves linear-ensiform, 300-500 mm long, 15-22 mm broad. Flowers pale yellow with an orange-brown nectar guide and yellow (occasionally blue-flushed) style branches.
Flowers pale-yellow, the outer tepals with brown nectar guides at the base of the limbs and spotted on the claws; outer tepals 30–40 mm long, claw c. 15 mm long, limb horizontal, 15–17 mm wide: inner tepals smaller, to 38 mm long.
Stems branching irregularly, bearing long laminate leaves below, and reduced sheathing bract-like leaves above; stem bracts 30–50 mm long.
Ovary 10–14 mm long; style 2–3 mm long, branches c. 8 mm long and 3–4 mm wide; with crests 5–10 mm long, acute.
Rhipidia spathes (40)45–50 mm long, the outer about half as long as the inner, obtuse to emarginate.
Capsules pendent, 30–35 mm long, narrowly ovoid, smooth, dehiscing irregularly.
Filaments free, 4–6 mm long, broadened at the base, anthers 5–6 mm long.
Leaves 300–500 × 15–22 mm, narrowly lanceolate, glaucous.
Plants 50–70 cm high, forming clumps.
