Small erect shrubs, about 80 cm high and scarcely branched. Leaf sheaths brown, fan-like, 4 cm long and about 6.5 cm wide, blades arching, deciduous, 30-40 cm long and 1.0-1.5 cm wide. Flowers solitary, peduncles about 10 cm long, covered with woolly trichomes. Tepals about 2.5-3.0 cm long, pale to deep purplish-mauve. Stamens six, with short filaments and anthers about 1.5 cm long. Style base 5 mm long, stigma about 1 cm long. Ovary 1 cm long. Ovary, peduncle and outside of outer tepals densely covered with a woolly indumentum.
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