Plant 3-5 dm. high, usually spreading by elongate scaly rhizomes. Leaves 15-20 in a spreading rosette, to 7 dm. long, marked especially beneath with fine irregular transverse purple-brown lines, ob-scurely punctulate-lepidote; sheaths short and indistinct, castaneous toward base; blades ligu-late, broadly acute or rounded, apiculate, 4-8 cm. wide. Scape erect, somewhat shorter than the leaves. Scape-bracts densely imbricate, broadly elliptic, acute or acuminate, subinflated, bright rose. Inflorescence simple, dense, sub-globose, 12-to 25-flowered, glabrous. Floral bracts broadly obovate, apiculate, about half as long as the sepals and enfolding the base of the flower, coriaceous, bright rose. Flowers subsessile. Sepals 2 5-45 mm. long, oblong, obtuse, cucullate, highly connate, coriaceous, yellowish. Petals included at an-thesis, highly connate. Stamens shorter than the petals.
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