Plants up to 40 cm high. Roots thin, reddish. Stem forming a short, vertical, woody base giving rise to several short, woody branches which end in congested, leafy shoots, densely covered by membranous tubular leaf-bases. Leaves many per shoot, lamina linear, up to 30 cm long, ca. 5 mm broad, keeled, glabrous or slightly muricate, soft in texture, tapering to an elongated point. Inflorescence about as long as the leaves or overtopping them, simple or with a few short, basal branches, glandular-hispid, laxly flowered; scape arcuate below terete, fairly stout; bracts small, deltoid, cuspidate: pedicels up to 2 cm long at first erect and short, later curved downwards, with the fruit facing the scape. Flowers with a white, dark keeled, maculate perianth, glandular hispid on the outside, segments 1 cm long; filaments muricate; ovary with 2 ovules per cell. Capsule globose, 8 mm in diam., densely covered with dendroid, gland-tipped excrescences, with a short stipe, hidden by covering. Seeds grey, 3 mm long, ovoid, flattened, verrucose with hard, rough, irregular ligulae and wings around the sides.
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Rhizomatous perennial to 60 cm, roots many, wiry. Leaves many, linear, triquetrous, soft and usually roughly hairy. Flowers in a roughly glandular-hairy, trailing, unbranched raceme, white. Fruits obscurely stalked, 7-9 mm long, densely covered with branched protuberances, on long, spreading pedicels.
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