Diplarrena latifolia Benth.

Leaves 30-100 cm long, 10-20 mm wide, slightly glaucous. Scape 60-120 cm long, exceeding leaves. Spathes narrowly lanceolate, equal, 6.5-8.5 cm long, 10-12 mm wide, green, glabrous, prominently veined. Flowers white. Sepals broadly elliptic, abruptly contracted into claw, sometimes emarginate, concave, 3.5-4.2 cm long, 2.5-3 cm wide. Petals narrowly oblong, retuse, c. 2.5 cm long; two spreading, purple-veined at sides, often yellow toward apex. Fertile filaments 4-8 mm long; anthers c. 3 mm long; staminode 2-4 mm long. Ovary c. 2 cm long; style c. 1.5 cm long. Capsules obovoid, triquetrous, c. 2.5 cm long, c. 9 mm wide. Seeds orbicular, c. 3 mm diam., brown.

Grows mainly in heaths including peaty moorland near the coast and in montane heaths.

Can be grown by divisions or seedlings.