Rosette acaulescent, slowly proliferous from the base, up to 10 cm tall. Leaves about 30, the young ascending, incurved near the tip, the old ascending-spreading, long recurved, somewhat firm 60-100 mm long, at base 14 mm broad and 31 mm thick, lanceolate, acuminate, gradually narrowed from the base to the tip which has a whitish soon deciduous awn; face concave below, flat above, often with a broad raised concolorous middle line and with 5-7 indistinct longitudinal lines, very light yellowish-green, towards the tip of old leaves becoming reddish, dull; back rounded below, triangular towards the tip, smooth and with 5 somewhat indistinct somewhat raised longitudinal lines alternating with finer and more indistinct lines, light yellowish green in the upper 3/4 and becoming darker below, tip reddish when old, dull; keel obtuse below, somewhat acute above, sparsely, irregularly and minutely toothed in the upper half, the teeth pellucid; margins somewhat blunt, sparsely and irregularly toothed from tip to near base of leaf, the teeth pellucid. Peduncle simple, terete, 1-1.5 mm diam., 20 cm long including the lax raceme, reddish-brown; raceme, flowers and buds about 10, 1-2 open at a time; pedicels 3 mm long, barely 1 mm diam., light greenish-brown; sterile bracts about 12, 5-8 mm long; fertile bracts 4-5 mm long, deltoid, acuminate, white, with a fine light brown nerve; perianth dull pinkish white, 14 mm long, 3 mm diam. at the slightly enlarged cylindrical-triangular base 2.25 mm diam. above, ovate, erect-spreading, curved; upper segments: back tip colour dull pinkish white and with a fine very light reddish-brown nerve, the inner segment almost straight, obtuse, the outer ones recurved at an angle of almost 90 degrees and narrow, obtuse, shorter and narrower than the inner; tower segments: back tip colour dull pinkish white, with very fine dull green and light brown nerves, the inner segment very recurved, the outer ones recurved about 90 degrees and shorter, the inner and outer obtuse and channelled; stamens 5 mm long; ovary 2.5-3 mm long, 1.25 mm diam., yellowish green; style 0.25-0.5 mm long, white, curved; capsule 12 mm long, 3.5 mm diam., cylindrical-triangular, light green.
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