Trunk none; stem many-branched below ground; crowns many, each an uneven open tuft. Leaves very depressed-cuneate in T.S., sometimes concave above, 3.2-7 mm wide, 1-2 mm thick, grey, glaucous. Scape 90-120 cm long, 10-17.5 mm diam. Spike c. 1/3-1/2 as long as scape, 45-65 cm long, 22-28 mm diam. Cluster-bracts prominent, narrowly triangular, subglabrous to fringed with hairs. Packing-bracts narrowly triangular to subulate, fringed with hairs to moderately hirsute. Sepals acute, with beak, without proboscis, distal 1/3 subglabrous to fringed with hairs. Petals ±erect to recurved, with large proboscis, distal 1/3 hirsute with short papillose hairs.
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