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Perianth orange-scarlet, green-tipped, 20–25 mm long, c. 4.5 mm in diameter across the ovary, cylindric-trigonous, constricted slightly and abruptly just below the mouth, base tapering into the pedicel; outer segments free to the base with tips widely spreading above the constriction.
Raceme c. 10 × 3.5 cm, cylindrical, laxly flowered; bracts 5–7 × 3 mm, ovate-acuminate, whitish papery; pedicels 10–13 mm long, with pendent flowers.
Inflorescence simple, erect to 20–30 cm high; peduncle with a few sterile, brownish, papery bracts 2–3 cm apart.
Perennial herb, suckering to produce clusters of slender spreading stems c. 5 cm long.
Capsule slightly stipitate, c. 11.5 × 4.5 mm, oblong.
Seeds c. 1.75 × 3.5 mm, narrowly winged, dark brown.
Stamens and stigma not or scarcely exserted.
