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Plants short-stemmed, 200-300 mm tall, in small, dense clumps. Leaves 41-102 cm a rosette, narrowly lanceolate, 120-175 x 10-25 mm, blue-grey-green, with many white spots on both surfaces, margins minutely dentate. Inflorescence a sublax raceme; peduncle 200-400 mm long; bracts spathulate, obtuse, 6-10 x 2-4 mm, 7-nerved. Flowers scarlet, 15-18 mm long, cylindric; pedicels 10-15 mm long. Anthers exserted up to 2 mm. Ovary ±2.5-4.0 x 1.5 mm; style exserted up to 2 mm. Fruit not seen.
Succulent perennial, with stem 20-30 cm, branching at base, creeping or pendent, with persistent dried leaves. Leaves blue-grey-green, with numerous white spots on both surfaces, narrowly lanceolate-acuminate, 12-17 cm long, lower surface with prickles on keel near tip; margins with small, pungent, red-brown teeth. Racemes cylindric, ± dense, ascending, simple, ± 20 cm high. Flowers scarlet, with greenish tips, 15-18 mm long; stamens and stigma exserted.
