Perennial herb, suckering to produce a cluster of several stems, erect to 50 cm high, or pendent to 75 cm long and up to 2 cm thick. Leaves distichous, laxly crowded at the stem apices, erect, spreading or pendent, 15–20 × 1–2 cm, linear, 10–15 mm apart at the sheathing bases, slightly channelled on the upper surface, very fleshy, greyish-green, white-spotted on the basal half of the lower surface; margins with a hyaline border and minute whitish teeth to 5 mm apart, or teeth often obsolete; apex bluntly obtuse to rounded. Inflorescence simple, erect and 30–50 cm high, or on pendent stems curving upwards with the raceme erect; peduncle with a few sterile, broadly ovate bracts below the raceme, 2–3 cm apart. Raceme 4–10 × 4 cm, cylindric to subcapitate, ± laxly flowered; bracts 3–5 × 2–3 mm, ovate-acuminate, pinkish-brown; pedicels 10–15 mm long, bright orange-red. Perianth scarlet, tipped with green, c. 25 mm long and 5–6 mm in diameter across the ovary, cylindrical, tapering at the base; outer segments free to the base with tips slightly spreading. Stamens and stigma scarcely exserted. Capsule and seeds not seen.
