Plants up to 60 cm high. Roots thin, wiry, many, slightly swollen in spring. Rhizome small, compact. Leaves 4-6 per shoot, subdistichous, arranged in an erect fanlike manner, linear to broadly linear, 7-40 cm long, 5-20 mm broad, flat, striate, pubescent, firm, dark green, 2 inner smaller falcate; the basal tube often produced into a prominent triangular point opposite the lamina; outer leaves often short, or without a lamina. Inflorescence taller than the leaves, with a few ascending branches, the lowest axils showing buds of suppressed, accessory branches, rarely simple; scape arcuate, firm, woody, pubescent, 30-40 cm long; racemes laxly flowered, elongating during anthesis; bracts small, subulate, ciliate; pedicels erect, up to 1 cm long and curving inwards in fruit. Flowers with perianth rotate, immaculate; segments 10-1 long; stamens spreading; ovary with 6 ovules per cell. Capsule globose, 6 mm, glabrous. Seed verrucose, grey, 3 mm.
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Rhizomatous perennial to 60 cm, roots wiry. Leaves in a fan, lanceolate, soft, usually velvety. Flowers in a sparsely branched raceme, peduncle usually pubescent, white.
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