Clumps to 20 cm diam. Leaves 45-85 cm long, 1-2 mm diam., acute; bases sheathing, brown, 4-13 cm long, pungent. Inflorescence as long as leaves, to c. 50-flowered; scape bracts usually 3, brown, linear-lanceolate, scarious, acute, 4-7 mm long; bract and bracteole linear, c. 1 mm long; pedicels slender, 6-13 mm long. Perianth segments entire, 5-9 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, united at base, purple. Anthers cohering around style, c. 4 mm long; filaments 0.5-1 mm long. Ovary c. 1 mm long; style 5-10 mm long. Capsule c. 5 mm long. Seeds 2 per locule, 2 mm long, 1 mm wide.