Plants acaulescent, in a basal rosette about 40 mm diam., proliferous from the base and forming clusters. Leaves green to reddish-brown, the young erect, tips incurved, the old ascending, erect, 20 to 25 mm long, up to 13 mm broad, up to 6 mm thick, elongate to lanceolate, or ovate lanceolate; upper surface convex, smooth, turgid near the apex, the pellucid part about 12 mm long, distinctly separated from the lower green, with about 6 reddish or green longitudinal lines; lower surface convex, smooth, with 10 longitudinal reddish-brown or green lines; keel 1, centrally positioned, toothed with about 1.5 mm long scattered teeth; margins rounded from the tip to about the middle, acute below, with a single row of 1.5 mm long teeth visible from the upper third to the base of the leaf, the upper smooth; end-awn about 5 mm long, sparsely denticulate. Inflorescence about 360 mm tall; peduncle simple, terete, 2 mm diam., about 160 mm long, bracteate; sterile bracts membranous, ovate to acuminate, about 6 mm long, erect, keeled; raceme about 200 mm long, lax, with about 20 spirally arranged flowers and buds, 4 open simultaneously; floral bracts membranous, 6 mm long, deltoid, keeled with fine reddish-brown veins, clasping the pedicels, (longer than the pedicels); pedicels 4 mm long, 1 mm diam., green, erect; perianth white with light green or reddish-brown veins to the segments, 13 mm long, 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 obtuse, channelled, little recurved, little spreading, white with reddish-brown veins; exterior part obtuse, channelled, little recurved, spreading, white with brown veins; stamens 6 of two lengths, 5 and 6 mm long, inserted within the perianth tube; ovary 5 mm long, 2 mm diam., green; style 2 mm long, curved, capitate.
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