Trunk none or up to 10 cm long; stem branched below ground; crowns 1 to many, each an erect tuft. Leaves narrowly transverse-rhombic to depressed-cuneate in T.S., 1.7-4 mm wide, 1-2.3 mm thick, green, not glaucous. Scape 35-150 cm long, 5-20 mm diam. Spike 1/3-1/2 as long as scape, 10-30 cm long, 20-40 mm diam. Cluster-bracts obscure or restricted to junction of scape and spike, shortly acute to narrowly triangular, glabrous. Packing-bracts shortly acute to acute, glabrous to fringed with hairs. Sepals acute, beaked, sometimes with distinct abaxial median ridge, without proboscis, glabrous. Petals ±erect to reflexed, without proboscis, glabrous except a tuft of hairs at apex.
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