Succulent, caulescent, perennial shrublet, with rhizomatous base. Stem up to 0.7 m high, woody or rosulate. Leaves green to glaucous-green, mostly terete or subterete, up to 280 mm long, erect, whorled along stem. Inflorescences many, erect or slightly curved, up to 0.75 m high, with lax to dense raceme; bracts white, base subauriculate, apex filiform-caudate, margins lacerate-lanate towards base; pedicels patent to recurved when barren. Flowers yellow. Flowering time all year.
A small succulent plant that keeps growing from year to year. It grows 60 cm high and spreads 50 cm wide. The stem is erect and branching. The leaves are green and 25 cm long. They are narrow. The flowers are bright yellow or orange. They have 3 petals and 3 sepals. They are in groups at the ends of branches. The flowers are 5 mm long. The fruit is a round, 3-chambered capsule. The seeds are black and oval.
Shrublet, 200-600 mm tall. Leaves subterete, surrounded below by hard, grey sheaths. Flowers in a dense, long, raceme, yellow, orange or white. Capsules small, subglobose, ± 4 mm diam., spreading to upcurved.
Perennial herb, up to 200 mm tall. Rhizomes formed. Aerial woody or rosulate branches present or woody branches suppressed. Leaves cylindrical to filiform, subulate. Flowers yellow.
Shrublet with wiry roots, 20-60 cm. Leaves subterete. Flowers in a dense, elongate raceme, yellow, orange or white. Capsules subglobose, spreading-upcurved.