Astroloba rubriflora (L.Bolus) Gideon F.sm. & J.C.Manning

Herbaceous perennial; caulescent, offsetting at and near the base, stems erect when young, ascending when old, up to 250 mm long, ±10 mm in diameter; roots terete, 2-3 mm in diameter. Leaves thick, hard, usually four-ranked in spirally arranged rows, squarrose-imbricate, ovate-squamiform, apex triquetrous, pungent-acuminate, dark green to glaucous green, coated with a waxy layer, 20-40 mm long, ±20 mm broad near base, up to 5 mm thick; upper surface concave or flat, immaculate or with very few lighter green spots near base; lower surface convex, keeled towards tip, usually with few lighter green spots, spots sometimes confluent to form longitudinal lines; margins and keel apex minutely scabrid. Inflorescence up to 500 mm long; peduncle simple, erect, slender, ±300 mm long, ±3 mm in diameter, sterile bracts membranous, lanceolate-acuminate, keeled with one reddish brown vein, ±7 mm long; raceme borne horizontally, ±200 mm long, ±28 spirally arranged flowers and buds, 3-8 accessible to pollinators simultaneously; floral bracts membranous, lanceolate, keeled, clasping pedicels, shorter than pedicels, 3-5 mm long; pedicels erect, persistent, brown, 6-8 mm long, ±1 mm in diameter. Flowers borne secundly erect, narrowly tubular, elongate, slightly constricted above ovary and below segment lobes, upper one-third slightly decurved, tube red to orange, upper one-tenth of perigone members dark green, connivent, reduplicate-valvate, tips of segments scarcely separated, ±20 mm long; 3 mm in diameter; segments red to orange with brownish midveins, not free to base, fused, closely adhering where free, apically spoon-shaped, outer segments slightly larger than inner, margins apically minutely crenulate-erose, yellow; stamens 6, subequal, inserted within perianth tube, attached below ovary, ±18 mm long; filaments light green; anthers yellow, dorsifixed, dehiscing longitudinally; ovary green, sessile, 6-7 mm long, 3 mm in diameter; style white, straight, capitate, ± equalling anthers, ±12 mm long. Fruit green, capsule trilocular, cylindric, apically retuse, dehiscing loculicidally, chartaceous when dry, ±16 mm long, 3-4 mm in diameter. Seed dark brown to black, angled, shortly winged, ±4 mm long.