Plants either like subsp. macrochlamys without aerial stem and branches crowded close to base or with short aerial stem and branching above ground, thus rounded. Leaves in a loose fan, linear, (2-)3-4 mm wide, without main vein, blades serpentine (loosely wavy in concertina fashion, sometimes appearing coiled when pressed); margins plane, not thickened. Rhipidial spathes: inner 37-45 mm long, outer 2/3 as long, sheathing in lower 2/3. Flowers on pedicels 10-15 mm long; tepal claws forming a narrow cup, 9-11 mm deep, ± 5 mm wide at rim; outer tepal limbs 16-18 mm long, tips attenuate and twisted, inner tepal limbs ± 16 mm long, slightly reflexed, claws of both whorls 10-12 mm long. Filaments united in a column 10-11 mm long, free in upper 1 mm; anther thecae ± 2.2 mm long. Ovary 15-28 mm long, with a beak 7-18 mm long; style branches diverging, with style arms ± 1 mm long.
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