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Plants stemless, 75-150 mm tall, in dense groups. Leaves 51-76 cm a rosette, narrowly lanceolate to semiterete-acuminate, 50-100 x 8-20 mm, blue-green, upper surface with few prickles, lower surface with many prickles, margins dentate. Inflorescence a lax raceme; peduncle 250-450 mm long; bracts lanceolate-acuminate, 18-25 x 8-9 mm, many-nerved. Flowers red to orange, 23-42 mm long; outer segments connate for one third of their length, inner segments dorsally adnate to the outer; pedicels 20-30 mm long, lengthening to 40 mm in fruit. Anthers not or hardly exserted. Ovary ±7-8 x 2 mm; style exserted up to 2 mm. Fruit 18-38 x 8-13 mm, grey.
Succulent, perennial herb; acaulescent, suckering to form dense groups. Leaves glaucous-green with dewy bloom, without spots, obscurely linear-veined, ovate-lanceolate, very acuminate, ± 100 mm long, surface tuberculate and with irregularly arranged, soft, white prickles, margins with deltoid, soft, white teeth. Inflorescence simple, suberect, 0.250.35 m high with cylindric, subdense racemes. Flowers usually scarlet, occasionally orange, 35-42 mm long; stamens and stigma scarcely exserted. Flowering time Aug., Sept.
Acaulescent, succulent perennial, suckering to form dense colonies. Leaves glaucous-green with dewy bloom, without spots, obscurely linear-veined, ovate-lanceolate, long-acuminate, ± 10 cm long, surface tuberculate and with irregularly arranged, soft, white prickles; margins with deltoid, soft, white teeth. Racemes suberect, cylindric, ± dense, simple, 25-35 cm high. Flowers scarlet, occasionally orange, 35-42 mm long; stamens and stigma scarcely exserted.
