Cormous geophyte, 400-700 mm tall, with short, horizontal branches. Leaves lanceolate, pleated, smooth. Flowers many in a dense, horizontal, secund spike, zygomorphic, bright red, perianth tube elongate, 30-35 mm long, wider in the upper half, bracts smooth, the inner forked at the tip.
Cormous geophyte, 40-70 cm, with short, horizontal branches. Leaves lanceolate, glabrous. Flowers zygomorphic, bright red, inner bracts divided to base, ovary smooth.