Kniphofia sarmentosa Kunth

Plants with short rhizomes forming small groups of stems. Leaves erect to recurved, glaucous, soft and flaccid in texture, 300-650 x 8-30 mm, V-shaped in cross section; margin and keel smooth. Scape stout, 300-600 mm tall, overtopping recurved leaves. Raceme conical, ovoid or subcylindrical, tapering to apex, at first dense but often elongating and becoming laxer, 80-300 x 50-65 mm; buds at first erect, soon spreading, coral to coral-scarlet with a greyish bloom; flowers pendulous, salmon to creamy buff. Bracts long, erect in bud stage and covering buds, later deflexed, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 11-15 mm long; margin entire. Pedicels 1-3 mm long. Perianth sub-cylindrical, 20-35 mm long, widening gradually above the middle; lobes ovate, 2 mm long, not spreading. Stamens exserted by 2-5 mm at anthesis, later withdrawn. Fruit ovoid-triquetrous, 7-8 mm long.

Can be grown by divisions or seedlings.