Plant 3-6 dm. high. Leaves many in a dense cyathiform rosette, usually with fine purple stripes toward base; sheaths ovate, 7 cm. long, densely brown-punctulate, often castaneous toward base; blades linear-triangular, acuminate, 10-15 mm. wide, glabrous above, obscurely punctulate below. Scape erect, slender. Scape-bracts densely imbricate, foliaceous. Inflorescence digitate, subcorymbose, green. Primary bracts ovate, acute, half as long as the axillary spikes, coriaceous, even. Spikes sub-ellipsoid, sessile or subsessile, dense, 3-to 10-flowered, 25-40 mm. long. Floral bracts ovate, broadly acute or obtuse, shorter than the sepals, coriaceous, even, ecarinate, subglabrous. Flowers subsessile. Sepals elliptic, acute, 10-12 mm. long, short-connate, carinate, coriaceous. Petals white. Capsule cylindric, 3 cm. long. Coma red-brown.
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