Plants one-to few-stemmed. Leaves: see vari-eties. Scape 0.5-0.9 m tall, overtopping leaves. Raceme lax, oblong-cylindrical, 100-300 x 60-70 mm; buds dull yellow, often tinged with red; flowers eventually deflexed, varying in colour from cream-coloured to yellow-green, or rarely, salmon-pink. Bracts lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, 7-11 mm long; margin entire. Pedicels 2.0-3.5 mm long. Perianth subcylindrical, often slightly arcuate, 30-42 mm long; lobes ovate, 4 mm long, not spreading. Stamens included or slightly exserted at anthesis, later withdrawn. Fruit subglobose to ovoid, about 6 mm long.
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