plant stemless or very short caulescent, 3–7 cm; high, propagating by short basal rhizomes. leaves 10–20, 6–22 cm long, suberect to near spreading, forming an open round rosette; sheath suborbiculate, 12–20 mm long, 15–22 mm wide, glabrous and lustrous inside, densely white lepidote and strongly rugulose outside, densely spinulose toward apex; blade very narrowly triangulate, long acuminate, neither narrowed between sheath and blade nor undulate along the margins, 5–20 cm long, 7 –15 mm wide at base, green or reddish, glabrous above, strongly nerved beneath and covered with a white membranaceous layer of slightly fused scales, usually subcoriaceous, laxly serrate with yellow acicular spines 2–3 mm long; inflorescense, pseudosimple to distinctly compound, usually few-flowered, with 5–15 flowers; primary bracts foliaceous; fascicles inconspicuous, the basal ones 2–3 flowered; floral bracts ovate, acuminate, entire or obscurely serrulate, 7–10 mm long, 3–6 mm wide, carinate, nerved, coarsely white-lepidote toward apex, membranaceous, to near equaling the sepals. flowers ca 25 mm long, weakly fragrant; sepals oblong or narrowly ovate, subacute and distinctlyapiculate, 6–7 mm long, ca 2.5 mm wide, connate at base for 2–3mm, entire, white-lepidote at apex but soon glabrous, green or reddish; petals spathulate, apex subacute to obtuse, slightly if cucullate, 20–23 mm long, 5–7 mm wide, very narrow toward base, connate for 2–3 mm at base in a common tube with the filaments and style, remaining erect to subspreading at anthesis, distinctly exceeding the stamens, white. stamens: anther 2–3 mm long, base sagittate, apex remotely apiculate, lined near the base. pistil: stigma simple-erect, stylar lobes ca 2.5 mm long, linear, subspreading, apex obtuse and inconspicuously crenulate, neither spiral not contorted; ovary 3.5–5 mm long; epigynous tube lacking; ovules nearly spherical, obtuse, numerous. fruits: seeds ca 1.5 mm long, finely sulcate, subovate, obtuse at one side and acute at the other, brown.Edited from : J. Crypt. Soc.. .