Kniphofia baurii Baker

Plants several-to many-stemmed. Leaves erect to somewhat falcate or occasionally recurved, soft in texture, glaucous, 200-500 x 12-25 mm, V-shaped in cross section; margin and keel markedly to sparsely serrulate or almost smooth. Scape overtopping leaves, 250-600 mm tall. Raceme globose to oblong, sometimes broader than long, dense, 40-100 x 40-60 mm; buds spreading, dull red to greenish tinged with dull red; flowers eventually pendulous, greenish to greenish yellow. Bracts ovate to ovate-oblong, obtuse to rounded, 4.5-10.0 mm long; margin eroso-denticulate, especially towards apex. Pedicels 1-2 mm long. Perianth subcylindrical, 28-38 mm long; lobes ovate, 2.5 mm long, slightly spreading. Stamens exserted by up to 2 mm at anthesis, later withdrawn. Fruit subglobose-tri-quetrous, about 7 mm long.