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Inflorescences 1–2 from each rosette, erect, up to 60 cm tall; peduncle very stout, 2–3-branched; branches subtended by broad, deltoid, scarious bracts c. 1.5 × 1.5 mm, with a few sterile bracts below each raceme.
Perianth bright orange-scarlet, 35–45 mm long, c. 7 mm in diameter across the ovary, tapering into the base, cylindric-trigonous; outer segments free to the base, tips slightly spreading.
Racemes 10–12 × 10–14 cm, subcapitate, very densely flowered; bracts c. 14 × 12 mm, broadly ovate, scarious, pale brown, many-nerved; pedicels 30–40 mm long.
Shrub 3–5 m high, sparingly branched from near the base.
Stamens and stigma slightly exserted.
Capsule and seeds not seen.
