; 0 stemless, flowering 3 dm, high. leaves 15 or more in a funnelform rosette, 20–23 cm, long; sheath broadly elliptic, 6–7 cm; long, dark castaneous, densely and minutely appressed-lepidote; blade ligulate with a long attenuate apex, 15–20 mm, wide, covered beneath with fine appressed cinereous scales, glabrous above. inflorescence: peduncle erect, slender; peduncle bracts densely imbricate and concealing the peduncle, the lowest subfoliaceous, the others elliptic, glabrous and lustrous except for the small narrow blade; fertile part laxly once-branched from 5–7 spikes, glabrous; primary bracts ovate, about half as long as the spikes; spikes subspreading, subsessile, lanceolate, acute, 45 mm; long, 12 mm; wide, strongly complanate, dense; floral bracts imbricate and wholly concealing the rachis, ovate, acute, 18 mm long, sharply carinate with a straight apex, coriaceous, even, lustrous. flowers: sepals lanceolate, acute, 15mm; long, the adaxial carinate, 2/3 connate; p1; iii, fig; 8 apex of leaf x 1/2; fig; 9 inflorescence x 1/2; fig; 10 adaxial sepals x 1.Edited from : Phytologia. (protologue) .