Plant caulescent, rosette 50 mm diam. and high, the bare stem above ground about 5 cm long, 7 mm diam., the young plants developing from the axil of the lower leaves which after drying off leave a branched stem with many young plants, the branches about 4 cm long by 5 mm diam. and provided with many aerial roots, the stem and branches prostrate and decumbent, and with the many branched plant forming dense clusters. Leaves somewhat crowded, incurved, the young erect, the older erect-spreading, somewhat tender, up to 35 mm long, 22 mm broad, 6 mm thick near the tip, obovate, abruptly acuminate; end-awn 1 mm long, naked, reddish-pellucid; face flat from the middle to base, concave to near tip, with a somewhat central raised concolorous line and about 12 somewhat indistinctly reticulate lines and a few pellucid oblong spots near the tip on some of the leaves, light green; back rounded, with about 20 indistinctly reticulate lines and several narrow longitudinal long and short oblong pellucid spots near the tip, light green becoming reddish near tip; keel central on most leaves, usually with a second one alongside, entire; margins acute below and greenish-white, rounded and pellucid in the upper half, entire. Peduncle simple, terete, fully 1.5 mm diam., 18 cm long including the raceme, very light brown below; raceme about 5 cm long, about 15 flowers and buds, 1-3 open simultaneously; pedicels 2 mm long, 1 mm diam., dark brownish-green; sterile bracts 6-8, the lowest 2-3 cm from the base of peduncle; fertile bracts 4.5 mm long, deltoid acuminate, white, with a fine, very pale brown nerve; perianth greyish-white, 15 mm long, the 3.5 mm subglobose cylindrical-triangular base only slightly constricted above, oblong, erect-spreading, slightly curved; upper segments obtuse, recurved, the face colour of the 2 outer ones white with a fine dark brown nerve, spreading, the inner one pink with a fine greenish-brown nerve; lower-segments obtuse, recurved, face colour of the 2 outer pinkish-brown with a fine brown nerve, slightly replicate, spreading, the inner one channelled, the face colour pure white with a broad brown nerve; stamens 4.5-5 and 4-4.5 mm long; ovary 2.5-3 mm long, slightly over 1.25 mm diam., dull brownish-green; style 0.75 mm long, bent, capitate, dull white.
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