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Stem simple or sparingly branched low down, up to about 60 cm high. Leaves up to 40 cm long, 15 cm broad at base, obscurely lineate, glaucous green: margins with a dark brown horny edge armed with dark brown deltoid pungent teeth up to 5 mm long, 10 mm distant; back of leaf with several scattered spines near apex. Inflorescence simple, up to 1 met. high including the raceme, up to 4 from a rosette, simultaneous or consecutive. Peduncle copiously sterile bracteate, the bracts 20 mm long, 15 mm broad at base, many-nerved. Raceme about 30 cm long. Bracts about 25 mm long, 10 mm broad, thin scarious many-nerved. Pedicels up to 40 mm long. Perianth salmon-orange, 35 mm long. Segments free to base.
Plants usually solitary, short-stemmed, 300-600 mm tall excluding inflorescence. Leaves 30-40, lanceolate, 250-400 x 70-150 mm, upper surface flat to slightly channelled, lower surface convex, very glaucous with faint longitudinal lines. Inflorescence a simple raceme; peduncle 0.5-1.0 m long; bracts ovate-deltoid, acute, 27-40 x 8-15 mm, many-nerved. Flowers deep pink, cylindric, 28-40 mm long; pedicels 19-40 mm long. Anthers exserted 1-2 mm. Ovary 5-9 x 2-3 mm, green; style exserted up to 3 mm. Fruit not seen.
Acaulescent or short-stemmed, succulent perennial, often suckering from base to form colonies. Leaves blue-grey, lanceolate, without spots, obscurely lineate, 30-40 cm long, lower surface often with small, scattered spines towards tip; margins with pungent, deltoid, reddish brown teeth. Racemes cylindric, dense, simple, 60-80 cm high. Flowers pink to pale orange, slightly greenish tipped, ± 40 mm long; stamens and stigma exserted.
Acaulescent or short-stemmed, 300-600 mm tall. Leaves distinctly blue-grey, up to 400 mm long, without spots, with faint longitudinal lines, lower surfaces often with small, scattered spines towards tips, margins with contrasting reddish brown teeth. Flowers in stout, unbranched, conical racemes, nodding, pink to pale orange, buds covered by large bracts.
