Succulent, perennial herb; acaulescent, rosettes decumbent or erect, 0.25-0.75 m high, up to 0.65 m in diam., solitary or proliferating from base to form small groups. Leaves rosulate, dark green, with dense white spots arranged in transverse bands, 220-600 mm long, 45-100 mm wide at base, linear-lanceolate to lorate, erectly spreading, sometimes falcate, surface smooth, rarely slightly tuberculate, with distinct keel, apex acute and mucronate, margins cartilaginous-serrate, rarely entire. Inflorescence usually branched, erect or inclined, side branches horizontal to erectly spreading, up to 1 m high. Flowers 35-45 mm long, basally indistinctly gasteriform for half its length, gasteriform portion pink, tube white with green striations. Flowering time Sept.-Dec.
Acaulescent succulent to 1 m. Leaves in a spiral rosette, smooth, margins and keels toothed. Flowers in an inclined, usually branched raceme, nodding, pink and green, elongate, barely inflated below.