Herb 30-60 cm tall. Leaves 16-50 cm long, 2-6 mm wide, glabrous, the bases with scarious brown margins. Inflorescence few-branched, with 2-4 scape bracts 2-10 cm long each subtending 1 sessile and 1-4 pendunculate rhipidia. Rhipidia 3-7-flowered, enclosed by ovate to oblong spathes 12-20 mm long with broad scarious margins and apices. Flowers separated by hyaline bracteoles 10-15 mm long. Sepals and petals obovate to oblanceolate, obtuse, 12-20 mm long, 6-10 mm wide, slightly puberulous outside. Filaments c. 5 mm long, connate 1-2 mm at base; anthers 2.5-3 mm long. Style branches 4-5 mm long; stigmas bilobed. Capsule acuminate, 12-20 mm long; pedicel to 2 mm long. Seeds globose to angular, c. 2 mm diam.
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