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Inflorescence erect to 75 cm high; peduncle stout, 3–4(7)-branched, the lowest branch occasionally rebranched; branches curving upwards, subtended by scarious or often leafy bracts to 5 cm long, with racemes all ± at the same height, or the lateral ones slightly overtopping the terminal one, and with a few sterile scarious bracts below each raceme.
Perianth bright orange-red, 35–40 mm long, c. 9 mm in diameter across the ovary, abruptly constricted just above then gradually widening, cylindric-trigonous; outer segments free for c. one-quarter, tips spreading.
Racemes 3–4 × 10–12 cm, broadly capitate-corymbose, very densely flowered; bracts 15–20 × 4–6 mm, ovate-acuminate, scarious, many-nerved; pedicels 30–40 mm long elongating to 50 mm or more in fruit.
Perennial herb, solitary, acaulescent.
Stamens and stigma slightly exserted.
Capsule and seeds not seen.
