Trunk usually none, rarely to 60 cm long; stem usually simple; crown usually 1, in an erect dense tuft. Leaves depressed-obtrullate to depressed-cuneate in T.S., 4-7.7 mm wide, 1.8-2.5 mm thick, green to slightly blue-green, slightly glaucous. Scape 50-80 cm long, 25-30 mm diam. Spike 2-3 times longer than scape, 95-165 cm long, rarely to 2.65 m, 40-60 mm diam. Cluster-bracts almost obscure, shortly acute to acute, subglabrous. Packing-bracts shortly acute, subglabrous to fringed with hairs. Sepals acute, with very short beak, without proboscis, subglabrous, with a median line of hairs and a tuft of hairs in the beak. Petals reflexed, with proboscis, glabrous except for short hairs at apex.
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