Plants acaulescent, decumbent, 250 mm tall, up to 700 mm diam., proliferating from base and cluster-forming (3-8 heads). Roots succulent, up to 5 mm diam. Leases rosulate. deltoid-lanceolate, 120-250 mm long, 30-50 mm broad at base, falcate and curving upwards, sometimes becoming recurved; adaxial surface deeply canaliculate, plane towards apex, faintly white-spotted; abaxial surface somewhat convex with a distinct, eccentric keel, faintly spotted, spots arranged in obscure transverse bands; both surfaces shiny, dark green with smooth epidermis; margin minutely denticulate to almost entire, apex acute or subacute, sometimes acuminate, mucronate. Juvenile leaves distichous, lorate, patent to ascending; epidermis tuberculate, densely white-spotted, spots arranged in transverse bands; apex obtuse, mucronate. Inflorescence racemose with up to 11 pendent flowers, secundly arranged and open at the same time, up to 560 mm long, bearing two horizontally spreading side branches up to 300 mm long. Scape 4-5 mm broad at base, flattened; portion of floral bracts 7 x 2 mm piliferous; peduncular bracts present, slightly larger; pedicels slender, 10-17 mm long, pink. Perianth 40-43 mm long, stipitate for 3-4 mm; segments fused for their greater length (except the perianth apices and margins of the inner 3 segments), subcylindrical, curved in the middle (and with a slight constriction), lower portion of perianth slightly decurved from narrowed central part; lower and upper half inflated to ± 6 mm diam., pink, upper half white with green striations; apices erect, becoming erectly spreading, obtuse; margins of inner segments free and channelled at base for 10-12 mm diverging gradually towards apex. Stamens 34-37 mm long; anthers 3 x 1.5 mm long, included or shortly exserted. Ovary 8 x 3 mm green; style 31 mm long, stigma included or shortly exserted, curved upwards, minute. Capsule 23-32 mm long, narrowly obovate, triangular in cross section, obtuse at apex, 6-8 mm diam. Seeds 5-7 x 2-3 mm, black.
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