Xerophyta elegans Baker

Stem slender, decumbent and, in lower part, covered with disintegrated fibrous remnants of old leaf sheaths. Leaves 10-15(-20) cm long, mesophytic and persistent, tristichous, recurved or falcate, sharply keeled and with many ribs on each side, glabrous but distinctly serrulate in the upper part of the keel and margins. Peduncle terminal, undivided or divided into three to five 5-15-cm-long pedicels, each bearing one flower. Flowers pale lilac in bud, then pure white and turning green after flowering. Stamens six, erect, adnate to and as long as the style. Stigma cylindrical, six-furrowed, smaller than the style and overtopping the anthers. Ovary glabrous, obovate, triangular.