Herbs, perennial, somewhat tufted, glabrous. Stems root-stocks, horizontal, branched, bearing terminal rosettes. Leaves alternate, spreading to ascending, sessile; blade blue-green with white margins (unique in flora area), glaucous, oblanceolate, oblanceolate-oblong, or spatulate, laminar, (14-)28-67 × (5-)11(-18) mm, base not spurred, not scarious, (margins somewhat erose), apex widely rounded or truncate, sometimes emarginate. Flowering shoots erect, mostly simple, 16-25 cm; leaf blades oblanceolate-oblong or oblanceolate-elliptic, base not spurred; offsets not formed. Inflorescences elongated, paniculate cymes, 20-55-flowered, 3-15-branched; branches not recurved, forked; bracts similar to leaves, smaller. Pedicels 3-5(-8) mm. Flowers 5-merous; sepals erect, connate basally, green or sometimes slightly glaucous, lanceolate, equal, ca. 4.5 × 2.5 mm, apex acute or subacute, (sometimes minutely papillose-ciliate); petals erect proximally, slightly spreading distally, (imbricate), connate basally, yellow, oblanceolate-oblong, often with minute, mucronate appendage, not carinate, ca. 9.5 mm, (distal margins erose), apex acute or obtuse; filaments pale green; anthers yellow; nectar scales white, transversely oblong. Carpels suberect, distinct, brown. 2n = 30.
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