Caudices simple or apically branched and cespitose, 1-5 × 1-3 cm, axillary branches absent. Leaves: rosettes 1-7, not in clumps, 10-25(-30)-leaved, 3-25 cm diam.; blade green, oblong-lanceolate, 4-30 × 0.5-4 cm, 1.5-6 mm thick, base 1-3 cm wide, apex acute to acuminate, surfaces not farinose, sometimes glaucous. Inflorescences: cyme mostly 2-3-branched, obpyramidal; branches not twisted (flowers on topside), simple or 1-times bifurcate, (5-16 cm diam.); cincinni 2-3, 2-20-flowered, circinate, 2-15(-25) cm; floral shoots 15-90(-120) × 0.3-1.2 cm; leaves 18-40, spreading to ascending, triangular-lanceolate to-ovate, 10-30(-50) × 3-18 mm, apex acute, in age straight and erect to spreading. Pedicels erect, not bent in fruit, 2-6(-12) mm. Flowers: calyx 4-7 × 5-8 mm; petals connate 1-2 mm, bright yellow or usually red or red-flushed or-marked abaxially, greenish to orange-yellow adaxially, 10-16 × 2.5-5 mm, apex acute, tips slightly outcurved; pistils connivent, erect. Unripe follicles erect. 2n = 68.
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