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A succulent plant. It is a herb that keeps growing from year to year. It occasionally has suckers. It can have a stem 1 m high and 12 cm across. The flowering stems are tall. They branch near the top. The flowers are dull red.
Perianth bright coral-pink with a bloom, a little paler at the mouth, 35–45 mm long, 8–10 mm in diameter across the ovary, cylindric-trigonous; outer segments free for ± one-third with slightly recurved tips.
Inflorescence erect, 1–2 m tall above the leaf rosette; peduncle 6–10-branched, the lower branches rebranching; branches erect, subtended by lanceolate scarious bracts to c. 2 cm long.
Racemes 15–30 × 6 cm, cylindrical, ± densely flowered; bracts 8–18 × 3–4 mm, lanceolate-attenuate, pale brown with darker often purplish veining; pedicels 8–20 mm long.
Perennial herb, usually solitary, rarely suckering to form small groups of plants, acaulescent, or older plants with a stem.
Stem when present up to c. 1 m high and up to 12 cm in diameter, covered with persistent light brown withered leaves.
Seeds c. 5 × 9 mm, blackish-brown, speckled, with buff wings.
Capsule 19–21 × 11 mm, ovoid, yellowish-buff.
Stamens and stigma exserted c. 4 mm.
