Trunk to 6 m long; crowns 1 to many, each an even sphere. Leaves narrowly transverse-rhombic to very depressed-cuneate in T.S., 5-12 mm wide, c. 2.5 mm thick, bluish, very glaucous. Scape 80-120 cm long, rarely to 2 m, 20-45 mm diam. Spike 1.5-2 times as long as scape, 150-250 cm long, rarely to 4 m, 30-45 mm diam. Cluster-bracts obscure. Packing-bracts subulate, glabrous. Sepals shortly acute to acute, beaked, without proboscis, glabrous. Petals recurved, with proboscis, glabrous except short hairs at apex.