plant saxicolous, flowering to 55 cm high, caulescent leaves numerous, ca 26 cm long, suberect, and incurved towards the tip, clustered, by no means forming an utriculum at the base, sheath long triangular, gradually narrowing towards the top, maximum height 18mm, margins involute, corrugated longitudinally, both sides clearly dark brown lepidote. leaves: blade narrow linear, 3–4 mm wide, conspicuously channelled, tip filiform attenuate, green, towards the base on both sides clearly dark brown lepidote, towards the tip underneath white lepidote above glabrescent, edges truncate. inflorescence: peduncle erect, subrigid, ca 35 cm long, 4 mm diam, green, glabrous, shiny; peduncle bracts lower ones leaflike long ovate with filiform-subulate tip, inside glabrous, outside white lepidote, erect and exceeding the internodes, upper ones ca 17 mm long, ca 12 mm wide, broad ovate, tip rounded apiculate, green, inside subglabrous, outside glabrous, shorter than the internodes; fertile part simple, 8 cm long, 2–3 cm wide, distichous at anthesis, erect, much exceeding the leaves, rachis flexuous, green, glabrous, shiny, ca 3 mm diam, very visible; floral bracts suborbicular, ca 14 mm long, 18 mm wide, not keeled, retuse tip, outside glabrous, inside inconspicuously white lepidote, green except for dark brown margins, shiny, equalling belove the middle os the sepal, smooth flowers nocturnal, erect, 35 mm long, pedicellate, pedicels thick, ca 5 mm long, and ca 6 mm diam, sepals elliptic, 21 mm long, 13 mm wide, not keeled, retuse tip, both sides inconspicuous and sparse white lepidote, green except for dark brown margins, free, shiny, petals obovate, 28 mm long, 16 mm wide, retuse tip, free, yellowish, erect or sub spreading at anthesis, at the base 2 ligules 6 mm long, with sub-entire tip with irrregular teeth. stamens included, filaments tubular, free, anthers 8 mm long, linear, dorsifixed near the base; ovules short caudate.Edited from : Bradea. .