Plants with one to several stems from a short, thickened rhizome. Leaves more or less disticÂhous, glaucous, ascending, 350-650 x 8-25 mm, shallowly channelled above, keeled, tendÂing to be spirally twisted, firm and semifleshy in texture; margin smooth. Scape overtopping leaves, 500-750 mm tall. Raceme cylindrical, very dense, 150-300 x 15-25 mm, rounded at apex; buds erect, dark brown; flowers ascendÂing to spreading, brown to purplish brown, faintly scented. Bracts obovate or subrotund to ovate, 4-6 mm long, rounded at apex; margin entire to minutely eroso-denticulate. Pedicels up to 0.5 mm long. Perianth subcampanulate or shortly cylindrical, 4.5-6.5 mm long; lobes ovate to rounded, 1.5 mm long, not spreading. Stamens exserted by 3-4 mm at anthesis. Fruit ovoid, more or less triquetrous, 5-6 mm long. Flowering time: February to March. Figure 5.
