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Description:
Plants (100–)300–500 mm high, forming tufts to 150 mm diam. Stem erect, occasionally with 1 or 2 short branches, elliptic in cross section, with (1–)4–6 sessile lateral flower clusters. Leaves linear, mostly 2.5–3 mm wide, reaching to ± middle of stem, loosely twisted. Flower clusters (1–)4–6, mostly sessile, each 2–4-flowered; spathes greenish with translucent margins becoming dry above, 15–18 mm long, bracts shorter than the spathes. Flowers half nodding, held at 45° to horizontal, pale pink to pale lilac, streaked dull brownish outside, outer tepals copper-brown in the lower 1/3, usually with a yellow central streak; outer tepals 22–23 × 13–14 mm, inner 23–25 × 15–17 mm. Filaments ± 4 mm long; anthers ± 5 mm long; pollen yellow. Ovary ± 10 mm long, slightly curved; style ± 11 mm long, stigma lobes broad, deeply fringed. Capsules elongate, woody, indehiscent, 35–40 mm long. Seeds triangular-columnar, truncate at apex and base, fringed with papillae along angles, surface obscurely foveate, epidermal cells domed, reddish brown, 1.5–1.8 × ± 1.5 mm. Flowering time: August to mid September.
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