Plant of distinct flat rosettes, us. few, each c. 1-2 cm. across. Branches us. few and very short, forming woody crown. Lvs green, firm, recurved; sheath broad, abruptly narrowed to blade; blade 10-15 × 1-1·5 mm. channelled above when dry, abruptly contracted into colourless apicula longer than width of adjacent part of If; peduncles < lvs but often standing erect from amongst them. Fls rather narrow at base; sepals 5, c. 4 mm. long, margin membr. and often inturned above, narrowed abruptly into definite apicula or short acicular tip; capsule 5-valved, often barely ⅔ length of sepals when mature.