plant more or less 2metres. leaves long very acute, tip recurved or revolute, not at all coloured, up to 1,4 m long, 0,18 m wide, not al all pruinose. inflorescence: peduncle very thick, covered by the sheaths of the leaves; fertile part very many flowered, a metre long, branches hanging, flowers exceedingly distichous not at all secund; bracts elliptic ovate, tip rounded, at least when young incurved keeled, to 29 mm long, about twice as short as the sepals. flowers spreading or suberect, scarcely over 65 mm long; sepals to 33 mm long, oblong, rounded; petals white when young, soon becoming a dirty yellow, sepals scarcely over 25 mm long, one ligule in 2 parts, banded. fruits: seeds coma upper brown, lower yellowish.Edited from : Mez, in Engler Pflanzenr: IV 32: 405. 1935 .