Plants forming close mats with up to 40-cm-long decumbent stem, at the apex divided into two or more branches, densely covered with closely appressed yellow-brown leaf sheaths; blades up to 45 cm long and 8 mm wide and ending in a long attenuate tip, deciduous. Flowers solitary, peduncle 15 cm long, glandular. Tepals 35-40 mm long, mauve or white with faintly violet nerves, the outer with glandular trichomes outside. Stamens six, filaments short (about 1 mm), anthers 13 mm long. Style 4 mm long, stigma 10 mm long. Ovary about 6 mm wide and 6 mm long, turbinate.
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