Trunk usually 2-6 m long; stem branched, sometimes single; crowns 1-10; new leaves in ±erect tuft; mature leaves spreading, lax. Leaves transverse-rhombic to depressed-obtrullate in T.S., distally transverse-linear, 2.5-3.5 mm wide, rarely to 6.7 mm, 1.3-2.4 mm thick, green to bright green. Scape 135-185 cm long, 20-30 mm diam. Spike 0.6-1.6 as long as scape but usually equal to scape, 110-180 cm long, 30-50 mm diam. Cluster-bracts prominent for at least basal 10% of spike length, rarely obscure, narrowly triangular, subglabrous to fringed. Packing bracts acute, subglabrous. Sepals acute to triangular, with beak to 0.5 mm long, without proboscis, glabrous to subglabrous. Petals recurved, sometimes without proboscis, glabrous except hairs at apex.
Grows on steep rocky hillsides, usually in moist or wet sclerophyll forest, or at rainforest margins.
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