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Plants almost stemless to arborescent, 1-2 m tall; stems simple or branched. Leaves ±30 per rosette, spreading to slightly recurved, 500-700 x 50-95 mm, channelled, green to reddish. Inflorescences 1-5 per rosette, 0.6-1.2 m tall, less than 50 mm in diameter; bracts ovate-acute, 10-11 x 5-7 mm, 3-5-nerved. Flowers sessile, brownish red in bud, greenish yellow to almost white at flowering, 7-15 mm long. Anthers exserted 5-15 mm. Ovary ±4.0-5.0 x 2.5 mm, orange; style exserted 3-15 mm. Fruit ±13 x 6 mm, almost black. Seeds ±2.0 x 1.25 x 0.7 mm, black, without wings.
Leaves in a dense rosette, spreading, becoming recurved; lamina c. 60–80 cm long, 7–10 cm wide at the base, lanceolate-attenuate, channelled, uniformly green or flushed entirely coppery-red in dry conditions; margins reddish, with cartilaginous deltoid teeth 1–2 mm long and 8–15 mm apart.
Perianth greenish-yellow to golden-yellow, brownish in bud, c. 15 mm long, c. 10 mm in diameter at the mouth, campanulate, with much brownish nectar; outer segments free to the base.
A shrub. It grows 1-2 m tall. There are about 30 leaves in a ring. They are often slightly curved and 50-70 cm long by 5-9 cm wide.
Stem erect, simple or branched, or forming shrubs with branches decumbent; stems and branches covered with withered leaf remains.
Raceme 30–50 × c. 3 cm, cylindric, very densely flowered; bracts pale brown, c. 10 × 6 mm, ovate-acuminate; flowers ± sessile.
Inflorescences 1–5, simple, erect to 1 m tall above the leaf rosette; peduncle with numerous sterile bracts below the raceme.
Stamens and stigma exserted c. 10 mm; stamens with filaments yellow and anthers orange, stigma yellow.
Seeds c. 2 × 3 mm, black with very narrow pale brown wings.
Capsule c. 12 × 7 mm, ovoid, dark brown.
Tree or shrub 1–2 m high.
