Kniphofia rooperi Lem.

Plants many-stemmed. Leaves usually in four ranks, arcuate-spreading to strongly recurved, dull green, 0.5-1.1 m long, 15-35(-40) mm broad, deeply keeled and broadly V-shaped in cross section; margin and keel distinctly to sparsely serrulate, rarely almost smooth. Scape overtopping spreading leaves, stout, 0.6-1.4 m tall. Raceme very dense, globose when in full flower, 80-110 x 50-80 mm; apex conical in young stage with buds erect and enclosed in overlapping imbricate bracts; variable in colour with buds brilliant flame-red to orange-yellow or greenish, and open flowers orange-red to yellow-green. Bracts oblong to obovate, obtuse to rounded, 7-11 mm long, usually brownish, minutely serrulate to almost entire. Pedicels 1 mm long, elongating to 3-4 mm in fruiting stage. Perianth subcylindrical, 35-42 mm long; lobes ovate, 2.5 mm long, slightly spreading at anthesis. Stamens slightly exserted at anthesis, later withdrawn. Fruit ovoid-triquetrous, erect, 8-10 mm long. Flowering time: winter and early spring, from June to September, but flowering specimens have been recorded, especially in cultivation, as early as March and as late as November.

Can be grown by divisions or seedlings.