plant stem ca 20 cm long; much exceeding leaves leaves densely polystichous; ca 7 cm long, blades 7–8 mm wide, channeled, broadening out gradually into sheath; leaf-sheath 15- 18 mm wide, the vestiture like that of blades, coarsely cinereous lepidote. inflorescence: peduncle lacking; fertile part terminal (may appear to be axillary), simple, oblanceolate and complanate, to 5 cm long and 1–1.5 cm wide, with 2–3 flowers; floral bracts 3–3.5 cm long, glabrous, ecarinate, chartaceous, conspicuously nerved, dark purple when fresh. flowers: sepals 1.8–2.5 cm long, free, nerved, adaxially carinate; petals 3.5- 4.0 cm long, white, lobes erect at anthesis. pistil: stigma of the simple erect type; slightly exceeding stamens, both included. stamens filaments narrow, undulate, capsule cylindric, ca, 1.5 cm long.Edited from : Syst. Bot.. (protologue) .