Perennial herb presumably from a thick rhizome with fleshy roots.. Leaves in a rosette, the outer basal ones sheathing so forming a pseudostem that is often decumbent and trailing up to 1.2 m, sometimes rooting; the lamina lanceolate, 50–170 cm long, 1.5–2.5 cm wide towards the base.. Inflorescence 50–150 cm high; peduncle 7–9 mm in diameter; raceme lax to dense, 9–17 cm long, 4–6.5 cm wide; fertile bracts ovate to triangular, 4–10 mm long, 2–3 mm wide at the base, obtuse to acute at the apex, the keel ± equalling the margins; pedicels 2–5 mm long.. Flowers orange outside, yellow inside and towards the mouth of the tube at anthesis, ± held horizontally to slightly pendent, only slightly decurved; the perianth-tube 22–30 mm long, 5–8 mm wide at the mouth, 2–3 mm wide around the ovary, not or barely constricted above the ovary, 2–3 mm wide, the lobes triangular, 1–2 mm long; stamens and style included within the tube or slightly exserted.. Immature capsule ovoid, ± 4 mm long, ± 3 mm wide.
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