Leaves leathery, acuminate, to 100 cm long and 4 cm wide. Scapes terete, leafy, about equalling leaves. Panicle to 30 cm long, glabrous or very sparsely woolly; bracteoles lanceolate, to 12 mm long. Perianth white; outer tepals lanceolate, 8-14 mm long; inner tepals lanceolate, c. 3 mm long, often unequally bilobed. Stamen c. 4 mm long; filament usually shortly adnate to lateral tepals and basally adnate to abaxial tepal; anther locules c. 2 mm long. Ovary c. 2 mm long, densely hairy; style slender, 5 mm long. Fruit indehiscent, ovoid-globular, lobed, 5-7 mm long, hairy. Seeds c. 2 mm long, dark reddish brown.
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