Perennial herb. Stems usually many, short. Leaves first erect, later recurved, 0.30-0.45 m long, 6-14 mm wide, V-shaped in cross section, margins and keel smooth. Inflorescence overtopping leaves, 0.4-0.6 m high, with subglobose to shortly cylindric, dense raceme. Flowers flame-orange, tipped with yellow and spreading in bud, lemon-yellow and pendulous when mature, 30-42 mm long. Flowering time Oct.-Feb.
Perennial herb; caulescent. Stems usually many, short. Leaves first erect, later recurved, 300450 x 6-14 mm, keeled; margins and keel smooth. Flowers: inflorescence overtopping leaves, 0.4-0.6 m high, racemes subglobose to shortly cylindrical, dense; perianth 30-42 mm long, flame-orange, tipped with yellow and spreading in bud, lemon-yellow and pendulous when mature; Oct.-Feb.
Perennial herb. Leaves 6-14 mm broad, soft-textured. Inflorescence bicolorous with a few red buds at apex, remainder of inflorescence lemon-yellow. Peduncle up to 0.6 m high. Perianth 30-42 mm long. Flowers lemon-yellow.