Rosette acaulescent, 60 mm diam., not or slowly proliferous from the base. Leaves about 15, the young erect, the old ascending-erect, hardly recurved, firm, 42 mm long, 11 mm broad from lower end of end-area to base of leaf, 8 mm thick at base of end-area, oblong, acute-deltoid; end-awn absent; face below end-area flat below, ± convex above, refused at an angle of about 60 degrees, pale green below, darker green above, dull; end-area, 14 mm long, 11 mm broad, ± convex below, ± flat near tip, smooth, pellucid green, ± shining, with 5(-7) parallel pale green lines, the middle one longer but not reaching the tip, the others progressively shorter; back convex, smooth, with very minute whitish longitudinal flecks, light green below, darker green above, dull; keel 1, obliquely arranged in the upper 3/4, ± triangular near tip, smooth; margins ± acute, smooth. Peduncle simple, terete, 1.5 mm diam., 25 mm long including the raceme, light brown below; raceme 10 cm long, about 18 spirally arranged flowers and buds, 2 open simultaneously; pedicels 1 mm long, 1.5 mm diam., very dark, green; sterile bracts about 11, amplexicaul, the lower ones 12 mm long, becoming shorter above, the lowest one 1 cm from base of peduncle; fertile bracts 10 mm long, deltoid acuminate, white with a brown nerve; perianth dull white, 17 mm long, the cylindrical-triangular base 4 mm diam., constricted to 3 mm above, ascending, ± curved; upper segments obtuse, channelled, the 2 outer ones recurved, not spreading, face colour dull white with a broad greenish-brown nerve, the inner segment less recurved, replicate towards the tip, shorter, face colour dull greenish-white with a broad greenish-brown nerve; lower segments obtuse, channelled, the outer ones ± replicate near tip, long recurved, spreading, face colour greenish-white with a broad green nerve, the inner segment more recurved, longer, face colour dull white with a broad greenish-brown nerve; stamens 5 and 6 mm long; ovary 3 mm long, 1.5 mm diam., yellowish-green; style 1 1/8 mm long, white, bent, capitate.
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