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Perianth coral-red with a slight bloom, paler toward the mouth, 28–33 mm long, c. 8 mm in diameter across the ovary, slightly constricted above, cylindric-trigonous; outer segments free to almost halfway, with slightly recurved tips.
Inflorescence erect to c. 1.1 m high; peduncle c. 6-branched; branches curving upwards and subtended by ovate scarious bracts c. 10 × 12 mm, with a few sterile bracts below each raceme.
Racemes 15–25 × 6 cm, cylindrical, laxly flowered; bracts 4–5 × 3.5 mm, ovate-acute, scarious, whitish with darker veining; pedicels c. 7 mm long, elongating to c. 10 mm in fruit.
Seeds c. 6 × 10 mm, blackish-brown, with broad, buff, speckled wings.
Capsule 25–30 × 11–15 mm, oblong-ovoid, dark yellowish-brown.
Stamens and stigma exserted to c. 6 mm.
Perennial herb, solitary, acaulescent.
