Trunk none; stem usually branched below ground; crowns 1 to many, each an upright tuft. Leaves depressed-obtrullate to depressed-cuneate in T.S., 2-3 mm wide, 1-1.7 mm thick, sometimes slightly greyish, glaucous. Scape 20-60 cm long, 5-9 mm diam. Spike shorter than scape, occasionally equal to scape, 7-30 cm long, 18-24 mm diam. Cluster-bracts very prominent, elongated, subulate, glabrous. Packing-bracts subulate, glabrous. Sepals triangular to narrowly triangular, with very long beak, with proboscis, glabrous. Petals erect to slightly recurved, with proboscis, glabrous except papillose hairs at apex and on proboscis.
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