Plant shortly caulescent, stems more or less procumbent, about 30 cm long, sometimes suckering. Leaves laxly rosulate, up to 20 (old ones persistent), spreading sub-erect, often recurving at the apex, ovate-lanceolate, long-attenuate, up to 34 cm long, 6 cm broad near the base and 5 mm thick, upper surface more or less flat near the base then canaliculate to the apex, fleshy, lineate and irregularly maculate with oblong or H-shaped white spots; lower surface convex, distinctly lineate and maculate at least around the margin, the white markings sometimes collected into irregular transverse bands or confluent into a pale green area; margins cartilaginous in part, teeth about 2 mm long, brown tipped. Inflorescence about 80 cm tall, branched from about or above the middle, thinly covered with a bloom in all parts; branches slender more or less horizontal, the lower sub-branched. Peduncle slender, about 6 mm diam., terete above, flattened on one side at the base and 1 cm broad; bract at the base of lowest branch up to 4 cm long, 1 cm broad at the base, narrowing to the apex, about 10-nerved, upper bracts smaller. Racemes more or less lax, those of the lateral branches with flowers distinctly secund, the terminal about 10-20 cm long, lateral 6-18 cm long; bracts deltoid-acuminate, 6 mm long, 2-5 mm broad at the base, 3-nerved; nerves reddish-brown. Pedicels 7-11 mm long in the open flower, slender, terete, reddish-brown, but also covered with a thin bloom. Perianth old-rose, thinly covered with a bloom (buds tipped grey-green), about 3 cm long, somewhat curved; tube swollen over the ovary, 5 mm diam., constricted above it and then gradually widening towards the apex; outer segments free for about 7 mm, 3 mm broad, pale on the margins and with obtuse slightly spreading apices; inner segments dorsally adnate to the tube but free on the margins to beyond the middle of the tube, about 4 mm broad with broad pale margin, obtuse and slightly spreading at the apex. Filaments canary-yellow in upper portion, linear-subulate, about 1 mm broad near base, attenuate towards the apex; anthers at length more or less exserted. Style canary-yellow, ultimately exserted. Ovary green, about 5 mm long. Capsule brownish, about 1.5 cm long.
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Plants 200-300 mm tall excluding inflorescence, stemless or short-stemmed; stem usually prostrate, solitary or suckering to form small groups. Leaves ±20 per rosette, spreading, 340-400 x 45-60 mm, slightly channelled, narrowed towards base, upper surface with lines and irregular pale green spots, lower surface lineate and more distinctly spotted. Inflorescence with ±11 ultimate branches; racemes secund, sublax, cylindric; bracts narrowly deltoid-acuminate, 6.0-8.0 x 1.0-2.5 mm, 3-nerved. Flowers old rose, rarely yellow, 22-30 mm long, subclavate; outer segments free for 5-7 mm, inner segments dorsally adnate to outer in lower half; pedicels 7-11 mm long. Anthers not or hardly exserted. Ovary ±5.0 x 1.5 mm, green; style exserted up to 2 mm. Fruit ±15-20 x 11 mm, dark grey-brown. Seeds ±3.0 x 1.5 x 1.0 mm, narrowly winged, almost black.
Acaulescent or shortly caulescent, succulent herb, up to 300 mm tall, excluding inflorescence. Stem usually procumbent. Leaves ± 20 per rosette, spreading, 340-400 x 45-60 mm. Raceme secund. Perianth mouth upturned. Flowers old rose, rarely yellow.
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