Branched shrub up to 1.5 m high, with branches about 4-5 cm in diameter, clothed in the brown leaf sheaths about 6 cm long, slowly disintegrating and laxly beset with grey trichomes. Leaves five to seven, up to 60 cm long and 1.3 cm wide, arranged at the tip of the branches, with the lamina deciduous, rigid, linear, tapering towards the apex, with an entire margin, densely clothed above and below with soft trichomes (about 1.5 mm long), more sparsely hairy on the midrib and in lower part, densely hairy in the upper part. Flowers solitary, with a peduncle up to 25 cm long which is sparsely hairy in the lower part and densely hairy in the upper part. Tepals about 6.0 cm long and 1.5 cm wide, white, lanceolate with an acuminate apex, the outer hairy on the midrib and towards the base. Stamens six, about 2 cm long with short (2-3 mm) filaments, anthers with yellow pollen. Style 3-4 mm long, stigma about 1.2 cm long. Ovary about 7 mm in diameter and 10 mm long, obovate, densely clothed with unicellular hairs which are about 2.0-2.5 mm long and more or less appressed.
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