Kniphofia ensifolia Baker

Plants many-stemmed. Leaves erect, bending over towards apex, glaucous to semiglaucous, 0.5-1.2 m long, 15-45 mm broad, V-shaped in cross section; margin and keel usually conspicuously serrulate, rarely smooth or almost so. Scape 0.6-1.8 m tall. Raceme very dense, cylindrical, 90-200 x 35-40 mm, tapering slightly towards apex; buds spreading, greenish white, red-tinged, or dull to flame-red; flowers spreading to pendulous, greenish white to cream-coloured, or sometimes yellow (in subsp. autumnalis), with a green line down each perianth lobe. Pedicels 2-3 mm long, increasing to 5 mm long in fruit. Bracts lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 7-10 mm long; margin smooth or rarely minutely eroso-serrulate. Perianth narrowly funnel-shaped, 15-21 mm long; lobes ovate, 2.5 mm long, not spreading. Stamens exserted by 6-8 mm at anthesis. Fruit subglobose, ±6 mm long.

Can be grown by divisions or seedlings.