Trunk usually none, rarely to 5 cm long; stem often branched below ground; crowns 1 to many, each a ±erect tuft. Leaves depressed-obtrullate to depressed-cuneate in T.S., sometimes concave, 3.2-4.4 mm wide, c. 1.8 mm thick, blue-green, very glaucous. Scape 80-125 cm long, 10-24 mm diam. Spike c. 1/3-1/2 as long as scape, rarely equal to scape, 24-96 cm long, 22-42 mm diam. Cluster-bracts obscure or very slightly prominent, acute to triangular, sparsely hairy. Packing-bracts shortly acute to acute, subglabrous to hirsute. Sepals triangular, beaked, without proboscis, glabrous. Petals recurved, with proboscis, glabrous except for short hairs adaxially at apex.