Plants large, with very short stem. Radical leaves numerous, long, each with a brown tubular tip. Inflorescence a large, scapose, terminal oblong thyrse or globular compound raceme. Flowers bisexual, large, red. Sepals and petals united at base into a tube enclosing the ovary; free parts spreading. Staminal filaments adnate to perianth for about 1/2 their length, inserted into a pit at base of anther. Ovary inferior; ovules 40-50 per locule. Fruit a large loculicidal capsule. Seeds winged, flattened.
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