Perennial herb. Stems several, short. Leaves recurved at about middle, 0.4-1.2 m long, 4-14 mm wide, V-shaped in cross section, margins smooth to sparsely serrulate toward apex. Inflorescence overtopping recurved leaves, 0.25-1.00 m high, with oblong to narrowly cylindric, dense or lax raceme. Flowers whitish, tinged with pink, or yellow to orange and ascending in bud, whitish, cream-coloured or yellow and spreading to deflexed when mature, 13-20 mm long. Flowering time Dec.-Apr.