Trunk none or rarely up to 30 cm long, branched below ground; crowns 1 to many, each a spreading tuft. Leaves transverse-rhombic or depressed-obtrullate in T.S., rarely depressed-cuneate, c. 1.8 mm wide, c. 1 mm thick, greyish, glaucous. Scape 25-45 cm long, 8-12 mm diam. Spike 0.2-0.75 times as long as scape, 10-25 cm long, 25-34 mm diam. Cluster-bracts prominent, rarely obscure, narrowly triangular to subulate, subglabrous. Packing-bracts acute, subglabrous. Sepals shortly acute, with median abaxial ridge, glabrous; beak usually very short, rarely to 0.9 mm long; proboscis often present. Petals ±erect to recurved, with proboscis, glabrous except hirsute margins and apex.
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