Plants forming low tufts, usually few-branched. Leaves firm, suberect to falcate, mostly 70-100 x 3-6 mm, all weakly to strongly curving in the same direction; margins plane, slightly or not at all thickened. Rhipidial spathes: inner 50-65 mm long, outer 50-57 mm long, sheathing in lower half, arching outward distally. Flowers with tepal claws forming narrow cup mostly 12-14 mm deep, ± 7 mm wide at rim, limbs laxly spreading; outer tepals 25-35 mm long, 8-10 mm at widest, limbs 13-20 mm long, slightly exceeding claws, inner tepals 25-30 mm long, claws of both whorls 12-14 mm long. Filaments united in a column 10.5-12.5 mm long, free upper 1 mm; anther thecae ± 3 mm long, shorter after anthesis. Ovary 18-22 mm long with tubular beak ± 12 mm long; style branches ± 1 mm long, dividing into diverging, prominently fringed arms, ± 2 mm long.
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