Plants acaulescent, decumbent to erect, 60-200 mm tall, 50-280 mm in diameter, solitary or proliferating from the base to form small groups. Roots succulent, up to 12 mm in diameter, linear-obclavate, gradually dilating from the tip upwards. Leaves at first distichous, becoming rosulate, or remaining distichous, 16-180 mm long, 25-80 mm broad at the base, triangular-lanceolate, rarely lanceolate-acuminate, erectly spreading adaxial surface canaliculate; abaxial surface somewhat convex with a distinct excentric keel; both surfaces dark green, with faint to dense white spots arranged in irregular transverse bands; epidermis smooth and shiny; margin entire or indistinctly tuberculate; apex acute, mucronate. Juvenile leaves distichous, lorate, 20-40 mm long, 20-35 mm broad at base, erectly spreading at first, becoming patent or recurved; epidermis tuberculate; tubercles domed or subconical, sometimes confluent forming ridges, rarely smooth, dark green, not spotted or rarely spotted; lower surface asperulous; apex obtuse or truncate, mucronate; plants rarely remain in the distichous phase. Inflorescence an erectly spreading lax panicle, 0.2-1.2 m long, up to 0.5 m in diameter, or racemose; scape 3-10 mm in diameter at base, branched from the upper half bearing 1 to 3 erectly spreading side branches; lower bracts 20 mm long, 10 mm broad at the base; floral bracts 8 mm long and 3 mm broad at the base; pedicel 7-8 mm long. Perianth 20-25 mm long, bright reddish pink, stipitate for 2-3 mm, gasteriform basally for slightly more than half its length; the gasteriform portion 5-8 mm in diameter (narrow-elliptic), thence constricted into a tube 4-5 mm wide; apices erectly spreading obtuse, yellowish; inner segments canaliculate for the length of the gasteriform portion. Stamens 18-22 mm long, anthers 2 mm long oblong, not protruding. Ovary 6 mm long and 2 mm in diameter; style 13-15 mm long, exceeding the anthers after anthesis; stigma minute, becoming capitate during anthesis, included Capsule 24-30 mm long, 8 mm in diameter. Seeds 3-4 mm long, 2 mm wide. Flowering time December to February.
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Succulent, perennial herb; acaulescent, rosettes decumbent or erect, 60-200 mm high, 50-280 mm in diam., solitary or proliferating from base to form small groups. Leaves distichous or becoming rosulate, dark green, with faint to dense white spots arranged in irregular transverse bands, 16-180 mm long, 25-80 mm wide at base, triangular-lanceolate, erectly spreading, surface smooth, shiny, apex acute, mucronate, margins entire to indistinctly tuberculate. Inflorescence branched or simple, erectly spreading, 0.2-1.2 m high. Flowers 20-25 mm long, basally gasteriform for just over half its length, gasteriform portion bright reddish pink, tube yellowish. Flowering time Dec.-Feb.
Acaulescent succulent to 1 m. Leaves in a spiral or distichous rosette, smooth, triangular, margins and keels smooth. Flowers in an inclined, simple or branched raceme, nodding, reddish, inflated below.
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