Perennial herb; caulescent. Stems usually several, short. Leaves erect, later recurved, 0.8-1.8 m x 20-40 mm, deeply keeled; margins and keel serrulate. Flowers: inflorescence overtopping reflexed leaves, 0.8-2.0 m high, racemes slender, elongate, subdense; perianth 7-12 mm long, greenish white to orange-yellow tipped with red and ascending in bud, whitish to yellow and ascending when mature; Feb.-Apr.
Perennial herb. Inflorescence elongate, 300-800 mm long. Peduncle up to 1.6 m high. Perianth shorter than 20 mm. Flowers 7-12 mm long, ascending. Flowers yellow to pale orange.