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A herb that keeps growing from year to year. It forms dense clumps. It can have a stem 40 cm long. The leaves are in compact rings. They are 50 cm long by 8 cm wide at the base. They are sword shaped and grey-green. They have white spots. There are 1-3 flowering stalks 2 m high.
Perianth pink with cream-coloured stripes, becoming yellowish when mature, 25–30 mm long, c. 6 mm in diameter across the ovary, widening slightly toward the mouth, cylindric-trigonous; outer segments free to halfway with slightly recurved tips.
Inflorescences 1–3, erect to 2 m high; peduncle 3–5-branched; branches curving upwards bearing the racemes erect, subtended by deltoid scarious bracts c. 15 × 15 mm, with a few sterile bracts below each raceme.
Racemes 30–50 × 6 cm, cylindric-acuminate, ± laxly flowered; bracts 15–20 × 10 mm, ovate, scarious, whitish, deflexed in fruit; pedicels 5–10 mm long.
Perennial herb, suckering to form dense clumps of plants, acaulescent or sometimes with a short thick often decumbent stem to 40 cm long.
Seeds c. 5 × 10 mm, blackish-brown with speckled whitish wings.
Capsule c. 25 × 15 mm, oblong-ovoid.
Stamens and stigma exserted 6–8 mm.
