Grass-like plants up to 50 cm long. Roots unknown. Rhizome unknown. Leaves semiterete to narrowly linear, up to 50 cm long, 1-2 mm broad, glabrous; leaf-bases persisting as hard, long fibres. Inflorescence simple, flowers aggregated near the apex; scape erect, straight, up to 50 cm long, with some empty bracts below raceme; bracts small; pedicels short ca. 5 mm long, ascending to erect. Flower with perianth segments ca. 5 mm long; filaments papillate (nearly smooth in one flower); ovary with 2pendulous, collateral ovules in each loculus. Capsule (immature) globose, erect.
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