A glabrous succulent perennial herb sending up erect flowering stems from a creeping stock, up to c. 60 cm high, glaucous, branching mainly near the base and closely leafy there. Leaves up to 12 x 3.5 cm, oblanceolate, apex subacute, mucronate, base narrowed, gutter-shaped, sessile, margins entire to coarsely and irregularly toothed in the expanded part, thick, glaucous. Flowering stems one to several from the upper leaf axils, long, sparsely bracteate, simple or forking once or twice to bear the heads on long peduncles. Heads discoid. Involucre campanulate, bracts c. 8, c. 15 mm long, alternately broad and narrow, a little shorter than the disc, calyculus wanting. Flowers scarlet, sometimes orange-scarlet or almost crimson, style branches with hairy, awl-shaped tips. Achenes 5 mm long, cylindric (immature), ribbed, glabrous.
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Succulent perennial herb, up to 0.6 m high. Leaves oblanceolate, sessile; margins entire to coarsely and irregularly toothed in expanded part; glabrous. Heads discoid; involucral bracts ± 8, 15 mm long. Achenes glabrous. Flowers scarlet, sometimes orange-scarlet or almost crimson.
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