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Perianth bright glossy red with paler tips, to orange or occasionally creamy-yellow, 35–45 mm long, slightly curved, 5–7 mm in diameter across the ovary, widening slightly towards the mouth to 6–10 mm in diameter, cylindric; outer segments free to nearly halfway, with tips spreading.
Inflorescences 1–3 from each leaf rosette, erect to 1 m tall above the rosette; peduncle 1–3-branched; branches curving upwards and subtended by pale scarious deltoid bracts c. 5 × 10 mm, with scattered sterile bracts below the racemes.
Stem erect, branching from the base and above; branches numerous, ascending or the basal ones shortly decumbent, all clothed in persistent leaf remains.
Racemes 10–30 × 5–8 cm, cylindrical, ± densely flowered; bracts 2–3 × 3–4 mm, ovate, scarious, pale brown; pedicels 3–8 mm long.
Shrub up to 1.5 m high, rarely to 2.5 m when supported by surrounding vegetation (see West, loc. cit.: 88].
Stamens and stigma exserted 4–10 mm, yellow, with anthers reddish-orange.
Capsule and seeds not seen.
