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An erect or ascending herb. Stems up to 1 m. tall, glabrous to pubescent, reddish-brown. Ocreae 4–6 mm. long, pubescent, membranous, truncate, with a terminal fringe of ± light-brown, erect-patent setae 4–5 mm. long. Leaves 2–8 cm. long, often less than 8 mm. broad but up to 1.8 cm., basally decurrent, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate or linear-lanceolate to lanceolate or lanceolate-elliptic, apically acute, mucronate, entire, the margins sinuous, or with 1–3 pairs of forward-directed lobes, sometimes very asymmetrical, puberulent or not on the midrib. Inflorescence elongated, probably up to 30 cm. Bracts 4 mm. long, 1–2.5 (–3) cm. apart, pubescent, with or (commonly) without a fringe of setae. Pedicels 2–4 (–6) together, not exceeding the bracts by more than 3 mm., erect, glabrous or puberulous. Flowers white, 4.75–6 mm. long. Tepals 3–3.75 mm. long. Short styles probably 1.5–2.5 mm. long, free to the base or up to 1 mm. connate. Filaments 1–4.5 mm. long. Fruit 5 (–6) mm. long, pubescent, otherwise smooth, conical, usually armed a little above the base with three small (sometimes scarcely perceptible) ± retrorse teeth or protuberances at the angles.

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An erect or ascending herb. Stems up to 1 m. tall, glabrous to pubescent, reddish-brown. Ocreae 4–6 mm. long, pubescent, membranous, truncate, with a terminal fringe of ± light-brown, erect-patent setae 4–5 mm. long. Leaves 2–8 cm. long, often less than 8 mm. broad but up to 1.8 cm., basally decurrent, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate or linear-lanceolate to lanceolate or lanceolate-elliptic, apically acute, mucronate, entire, the margins sinuous, or with 1–3 pairs of forward-directed lobes, sometimes very asymmetrical, puberulent or not on the midrib. Inflorescence elongated, probably up to 30 cm. Bracts 4 mm. long, 1–2.5 (–3) cm. apart, pubescent, with or (commonly) without a fringe of setae. Pedicels 2–4 (–6) together, not exceeding the bracts by more than 3 mm., erect, glabrous or puberulous. Flowers white, 4.75–6 mm. long. Tepals 3–3.75 mm. long. Short styles probably 1.5–2.5 mm. long, free to the base or up to 1 mm. connate. Filaments 1–4.5 mm. long. Fruit 5 (–6) mm. long, pubescent, otherwise smooth, conical, usually armed a little above the base with three small (sometimes scarcely perceptible) ± retrorse teeth or protuberances at the angles.

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An erect or ascending herb. Stems up to 1 m. tall, glabrous to pubescent, reddish-brown. Ocreae 4–6 mm. long, pubescent, membranous, truncate, with a terminal fringe of ± light-brown, erect-patent setae 4–5 mm. long. Leaves 2–8 cm. long, often less than 8 mm. broad but up to 1.8 cm., basally decurrent, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate or linear-lanceolate to lanceolate or lanceolate-elliptic, apically acute, mucronate, entire, the margins sinuous, or with 1–3 pairs of forward-directed lobes, sometimes very asymmetrical, puberulent or not on the midrib. Inflorescence elongated, probably up to 30 cm. Bracts 4 mm. long, 1–2.5 (–3) cm. apart, pubescent, with or (commonly) without a fringe of setae. Pedicels 2–4 (–6) together, not exceeding the bracts by more than 3 mm., erect, glabrous or puberulous. Flowers white, 4.75–6 mm. long. Tepals 3–3.75 mm. long. Short styles probably 1.5–2.5 mm. long, free to the base or up to 1 mm. connate. Filaments 1–4.5 mm. long. Fruit 5 (–6) mm. long, pubescent, otherwise smooth, conical, usually armed a little above the base with three small (sometimes scarcely perceptible) ± retrorse teeth or protuberances at the angles.