Trunk to 5 m long; stem and crowns 1 or 2; young leaves ±erect; older leaves sometimes strongly reflexed or absent by abscission. Leaves ±quadrate-rhombic in T.S., 2-2.2 mm wide, c. 1.6 mm thick, slightly grey-green, glaucous. Scape 60-80 cm long, 25-35 mm diam. Spike 1.5-2 times as long as scape, 100-150 cm long, 50-60 mm diam. Cluster-bracts obscure, rarely prominent at base of spike, narrowly triangular, glabrous or almost so. Packing-bracts shortly acute to triangular, glabrous to subglabrous, light brown. Sepals shortly acute, with very short beak, without proboscis, glabrous. Petals erect, with proboscis, sometimes with beak, glabrous except hairs at apex.
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