Kniphofia albescens Codd

Plants usually several-to many-stemmed. Leaves 0.6-1.0 m long, 8-15 mm broad, keeled, dull green to glaucous, tough and fibrous in texture; margin and keel smooth or sometimes distantly and minutely scabrid. Scape overtopping recurved leaves, 400-750 mm tall. Raceme long-ovoid or subcylindrical, tapering to base and apex, dense, 60-100 x 27-35 mm, elongating up to 300 mm in fruit; buds greenish white or tinged with pink, erect; flowers becoming white or cream-coloured, spreading at anthesis, later pendulous. Bracts lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 7-9 mm long, erect in bud stage; margin smooth to minutely denticulate. Pedicels 1 mm long. Perianth cylindrical, 11-15 mm long; lobes ovate, 2 mm long, slightly spreading. Stamens exserted by 2.0-2.5 mm at anthesis, eventually exserted by 5-6 mm. Fruit ovoid-triquetrous, 7-8 mm long.