chalyse said: or roots climbing out of the soil.
If the roots that are climbing out of the soil (or seems like they are) is at the base of the fans where a scape has/had been this may be proliferations that formed at the base of the scape. If I see any this year I will take a photo, but we actually get that quite often here. I find that you don't always have to have a bract for a prolif to form; there could be a nick or some type of crack in the lower scape that may be present and then a prolif can form.