Plants acaulescent, with leaves in a basal rosette about 7 cm diam., proliferous from the base and forming clusters. Leaves about 25, spirally arranged, the young more or less erect to slightly recurved, the old patent, recurved, about 40 mm long, up to 15 mm broad, up to 4 mm thick at the base, lanceolate, falcate, dark green; upper surface flat to slightly rounded, with a centrally positioned midrib in the upper three quarters, dull green, with 10 indistinct smudgy greenish lines, smooth, with numerous short longitudinal whitish flecks, and a few minute pellucid rounded markings which are arranged in longitudinal rows; lower surface rounded, smooth, with 8 indistinct greenish lines, dull green; keel 1, centrally positioned, armed with 0.25 mm long transparent teeth; margins acute, beset with 0.25 mm long irregularly spaced transparent teeth; end-awn 5 mm long, white, deciduous. Inflorescence about 140 mm tall; peduncle simple, 1 mm diam., 100 mm long, bracteate; sterile bracts membranous, acuminate, about 5 mm long, erect, keeled; raceme up to 30 mm long, lax, with about 6 spirally arranged flowers and buds, 1 open at a time; floral bracts membranous, 3 mm long, deltoid, acuminate, not stipitate, (equal in length to the pedicels); pedicels 3 mm long, 1 mm diam., grey-green, erect; perianth white with reddish-brown and yellow-green keels to the segments, 13 mm long, curved, compressed at base, funnel-shaped, tube more or less 4 mm across, constricted to 3 mm above, curved; segments free to the base, limb 2 lipped; posterior segments recurved, erect, spreading, white with fine reddish-brown veins; exterior part spreading, recurved, white with yellowish-green veins; stamens 6 of two lengths, 6 and 7 mm long, inserted within the perianth tube; ovary 3 mm long, 1.5 mm diam., green; style 1 mm long, white, curved, not capitate.
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