Caudices simple, 1-15 × 1-4 cm, axillary branches absent. Leaves: rosettes solitary, not in clumps, 10-35-leaved, 5-30(-60) cm diam.; blade ± chalky white, in age often red, oblong to oblong-obovate, 3-17[-30] × 1-7 cm, 2-4 mm thick, base 1-3.5 cm wide, apex acute or usually long-acuminate, surfaces not farinose, chalky. Inflorescences: cyme 3-6-branched, cylindric; branches (mostly ascending), twisted at base (flowers on underside), simple, (3-7 cm wide); cincinni 2-5, 4-20-flowered, circinate, 4-27 cm; floral shoots 15-60 × 0.2-0.6 cm; leaves 5-25, spreading, cordate-ovate to almost deltate, 10-35 × 5-25 mm, apex acute to acuminate. Pedicels mostly erect or ascending from bud to fruit, rarely spreading to pendent, in fruit often bent upward near or above middle, 5-20 mm. Flowers: calyx 4-7 × 4-7 mm; petals connate 4.5-8 mm, red to apricot yellow, 9-15 × 1.5-2 mm, apex obtuse to sharply acute, tips outcurved; pistils connivent, erect. Unripe follicles erect. 2n = 34.
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