Flower/fruit. Shortly rhizomatous. Leaf sheaths purple-green, lamina 10-11 mm wide. Green fruit only, with basal veined scarious bracts. 3 inner tepals purple, 5-veined, 3 outer tepals ¾ of length of inner and paler (with 5 veins each) 6 anthers on 'kinked' white filaments with yellow expanded bases; anthers brown. Flower 15 mm diam.