Lfy fans crowded or emerging at intervals from far-spreading horizontal rhizomes c. 3–4 mm. diam. Lvs 15–70 cm. × 5–15 mm., the two surfaces similar; often ± copper-coloured where exposed to full sun; nerves ∞, the median ones us. crowded and thickened, sts, like lf-margin, more brightly coloured than other parts of lamina. Peduncles short, us. not carrying fls or frs above lvs. Panicle narrow, much but us. closely branched; upper bracts often brown. Pedicels stout, mostly c. 1.5–3 cm. long. In fl.-bud per. sts brownish, c. = ovary. Fls c. 2 cm. diam.; tepals all white internally, widely patent; outer us. more than half length of inner, narrower but relatively broad and obtuse at tip; inner ± orbicular, shortly unguiculate, us. leaving most of outer tepals visible. Staminal filaments very shortly connate; anthers c. 3–3.5 mm. long, dark orange-brown. Ovary green, smoothly rounded, us. tapered to pedicel; style-branches very narrowly winged. Capsule us. < 1 cm. diam., ± pyriform, turning brown or sts yellow when immature, then black, and us. remaining undehisced until next season's fls are produced. Seed c. 1.2 mm. diam., subglobose, reticulate-patterned, light brownish. n = 57.
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