Tulista kingiana (Poelln.) Gideon F.sm. & Molteno

Plants acaulescent, with leaves in a basal rosette, which is about 14 cm diam., not or slowly proliferous from the base. Leaves numerous, the young erect, with the leaf-tips slightly incurved, the old up to 6 cm long, 35 mm broad, up to 10 mm thick, ovate to tapering, bright green, with a smooth hardened reddish-brown tip which is slightly incurved, somewhat falcate, shining, the upper surface lightly tubercled or smooth, not pellucid, often with a raised green line which extends from the apex to the base; lower surface rounded, with white tubercles arranged in transverse rows which are little raised; keel 1, centrally positioned near the apex; margins acute, with a whitish ridge dissolving into tubercles. Inflorescence (simple in young plants only) branched, up to 38 cm tall, with 2 branches, each subtended at the base by a 9 mm long deltoid bract; peduncle naked, up to 24 cm long, about 2 mm diam., brown; raceme about 14 cm long, with about 30 flowers and buds, 3 open simultaneously; floral bracts 4 mm long, membranous, ovate to deltoid, acute, with reddish veins, clasping the pedicels, (longer than the pedicels); pedicels 3 mm long, 0.75 mm diam., brown; perianth 14 mm long, straight, receptacle compressed at base, funnel-shaped, tube more or less 4 mm across, constricted to 2.5 mm above; segments closely coherent, limb 2 lipped; posterior segments erect or slightly recurved, white with green veins; exterior part recurved, white with green veins, replicate, spreading; stamens 6 of two lengths 8 and 9 mm long, inserted within the perianth tube; ovary 3 mm long, 2 mm diam., style 3 mm long, yellow-green, straight, not capitate.

Can be grown by divisions or seedlings.