Plant 4-10 dm. high. Leaves rosulate, suberect, 3-6 dm. long; sheaths narrowly ovate, very finely brown-lepidote, castaneous toward base; blades ligulate, acute to acuminate, 15-30 mm. wide, glabrous above, very obscurely lepidote be-neath. Scape erect, 5-8 mm. thick. Scape-bracts densely im-bricate, the lower subfoliaceous, the upper ovate with triangular apex. Inflorescence simple, strobilate, many-flowered, ovoid or cylindric, 5-8 cm. long, 2-3 cm. thick, glabrous. Floral bracts erect, suborbicular with a broadly triangular ob-tuse apex, ecarinate, 12-18 mnm. long, coriaceous, even, lustrous, bright red, drying pale to castaneous. Flowers subsessile. Sepals ovate, obtuse, 13-16 mm. long. Corolla white, 6-10 mm. longer than the sepals, its lobes elliptic, obtuse.
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