Plants few-stemmed, stems up to 1.5 m tall in old specimens. Leaves 30-40 per rosette, lanceolate, 200-400 x 40-90 mm, upper surface flat to slightly channelled, lower surface convex, distinctly lineate, dull to bright green, margins sometimes brown and cartilaginous between teeth. Inflorescence a simple raceme up to 1.2 m tall; peduncle 0.75-1 m long; bracts oblanceolate, 20-27 x 6-8 mm, many-nerved. Flowers salmon-pink to deep rose-pink, 32-50 mm long, cylindric-trigonous; all segments free or almost so; pedicels 20-40 mm long, lengthening in fruit. Anthers exserted 1-3 mm. Ovary 6-8 x 2-3 mm, green; style exserted 4-8 mm. Fruit 20-27 x 7.5-10.0 mm, buff.
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