Plants up to 40 cm high. Roots many, somewhat swollen near the rhizome, tapering to the tips, often felted. Rhizome compact, vertical. Squamae surrounding shoot forming a collar, outer firm, brownish, inner many, irregularly fimbriate, very thin, white, membranous. Leaves many, linear, up to 18 cm long, 5 mm wide, long tapered to the apex which is loosely curled when young, glabrous or minutely muricate or ciliate, apparently erect, glaucous. Inflorescence a divaricately branched raceme, laxly flowered; scape terete, slender, arcuate near the base, glabrous; bracts small, ovate, auriculate. mucronate, edges minutely ciliate; pedicels up to 15 mm long in fruit, erect. Flowers with a white, spreading, maculate perianth, segments 14 mm long; stamens uniform, filaments very shortly papillate, inner apparently connivent (no live flowers seen); ovary with 12 ovules per cell. Capsule oblong, rounded, 6 mm long. Seeds with sharp ridges.
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Rhizomatous perennial, up to 400 mm tall, roots many, hard and spreading. Leaves many, linear, succulent usually loosely curled towards tips, membranous sheaths irregularly fringed. Flowers white, yellow spotted at base, in a widely branched panicle. Capsules ellipsoidal, up to ± 8 mm long, held erect.
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