Kniphofia princeae (A.Berger) Marais

Perennial herb from a thick rhizome up to 3.7 cm in diameter, with spreading fleshy yellowish roots 2–3 mm wide.. Leaves in a basal rosette, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 115–180 cm long, up to 3.7 cm wide towards the base, strongly keeled.. Inflorescence 1–3 m high; peduncle 7–14 mm in diameter; raceme lax to dense, 25–60 cm long, 4–6.5 cm wide; fertile bracts oblong to lanceolate, 6–10 mm long, 1–2 mm wide at the base, obtuse at the apex; pedicels 4–6 mm long.. Flowers orange to bright red, yellow at the tips at anthesis, pendent, straight to slightly decurved; the perianth-tube 30–35 mm long, 3–4 mm wide around the ovary, constricted above the ovary into a long narrow tube 1–2 mm wide, then flared to 5–7 mm wide at mouth, the lobes narrow, 2–4 mm long; stamens level with the tube or slightly exserted; style exserted, up to 12 mm in older flowers; filaments and style yellow, anthers blackish with yellow pollen.. Capsule ovoid to trigonous, ± 6 mm long, ± 6 mm wide.