Herbs, perennial, from slender, creeping rhizomes; roots fibrous. Stems simple, glabrous. Leaves mostly basal, astride rhizomes, equitant, overlapping; blade narrowly linear, apex acute; cauline leaves 3–6, reduced. Inflorescences terminal, racemose, simple. Flowers greenish yellow to yellow, glabrous; tepals persistent, 6, spreading, erect in age, distinct, weakly 3-veined, glandless, linear-lanceolate, margins scarious; stamens 6; filaments white, very densely pubescent; anthers dorsifixed, versatile, 2-locular, linear, introrse; ovary superior, 3-locular, lobes fused into long-pointed stylar beak, septal glands absent; stigma minutely 3-lobed; pedicels bracteolate proximally, usually with small bracteole near middle. Fruits capsular, weakly 3-lobed, oblong-lanceolate, thin walled, dehiscence loculicidal. Seeds pale yellow, filiform-ellipsoid, narrowly bristle-tailed at both ends. x = 13.
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