Kniphofia tabularis Marloth

Plants many-stemmed. Leaves soft, arcuate-spreading or pendulous from cliff faces, 0.6-1.5 m long, 6-20 mm broad, channelled above and keeled below, the outer shorter and sheathing at ase; margin and keel smooth. Scape arcuate-rect, 0.6-1.2 m tall, occasionally branched ear apex. Raceme lax, oblong to cylindrical, 100-250 x 55-70 mm; buds ascending; flowers preading, eventually deflexed, red or scarlet to ale orange, blackish at tips of lobes. Pedicels 7 mm long, elongating to 10 mm in fruit. Bracts linear-lanceolate, long-acuminate to ristate, 7-11 mm long; margin entire. Perianth ubcylindrical, 24-30 mm long; lobes ovate, 3 mm long, not spreading. Stamens in throat or lightly exserted at anthesis. Fruit subglobose, ovoid, 7 mm long.