| Plant flowering 1.6–2 m in height. | Plant flowering up to 1.5 m in height, epiphytic or terrestrial. |
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| sheath elliptic, 12 cm wide, brown below with a narrow, pale margin. | sheaths distinct, 10–11 cm wide, cream-colored |
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| leaf blade apex broadly subacute or apiculate, flat, glabrous daxially, dark lepidote abaxially. | leaf blade apex acuminate, glabrous on both sides canaliculate. |
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| leaves up to 80 cm long | leaves up to 68 cm long, slightly leathery |
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| Inflorescence 40–50 cm long | Inflorescence 54–60 cm long |
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| Peduncle, ca 1.4 cm in diameter. | peduncle, 2–2.5 cm in diameter. |
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| peduncule bracts the upper ones elliptical, acute. | peduncule bracts ovate, acuminate or acute. |
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| primary bracts orbicular, ca 5 cm long and fully covering the spikes, the upper ones approximately half the length of the spikes. | primary bracts broadly ovate, 6–7 cm long. |
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| spikes globose, sessile, 5 cm long. | spikes ellipsoid, subsessile, 6–7 cm long. |
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| floral bracts acute. | floral bracts acuminate or apiculate. |
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| sepals 2.2 cm long, equally connate for 4 mm, brown when dry | sepals 1.5–2 cm long, connate for 6–7 mm, 5 mm wide, acute, coriaceous, almost free, cream-coloured, in lower half, brown in upper half and reddish brown at the apex margins, keel and apex. |
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| petals yellow, 1.5 cm long, with spreading Blade. | petals oblanceolate, whitish with purple spots and striations toward the apex, 2.9 cm long, with revolute coiled blade. |
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