erect, usually 1–2 ft., sometimes 3 ft. high; branches erect or spreading, pallid, puberulous; leaves 3–4-nate, often varying on the same plant, mostly erect and imbricate, or sometimes shorter than the internodes, more rarely spreading, linear, semiterete, glabrous, pallid, 1–2 lin. long; flowers 3–4–6-nate; pedicels straight or decurved, puberulous, 1–2 lin. long; bracts linear, remote, small; sepals ovate to lanceolate, keel-tipped, acute or obtuse, ciliate, subscarious or subfoliaceous, mostly glabrous, sometimes pubescent, 1/2– 3/4 lin. long; corolla suburceolate-cyathiform, not (or very slightly) constricted at the throat, glabrous, white, 1 1/4–2 lin. long, 3/4–1 lin. wide; segments broad, erect, sometimes erosulate, about 1/3 the length of the tube; filaments straight; anthers subexserted, rarely exserted, sublateral, dorsifixed very close to, but above, the base, obliquely oblong or narrow-elliptical, sparsely ciliate on the front margins, 2/5– 1/2 lin. long; aristate; pore about 1/2 the length of the cell; awns curved, subulate, acuminate, ciliate, 1/2– 2/3 the length of the cell; style exserted, sometimes decurved; stigma peltate-capitate; ovary glabrous. null
