Perennial herb, solitary or suckering to form small groups of plants, acaulescent or with a short thick stem to 20 cm long. Leaves spreading-erect, rosulate; lamina 30–45 cm long, 5–10 cm wide toward the base, lanceolate-attenuate, fleshy, light green, obscurely lineate on both surfaces, with faint whitish spots on the upper surface, usually without spots on the lower surface; margin with pungent, deltoid, pale brown-tipped teeth 2–4 mm long, 10–15 mm apart; sap pale purplish. Inflorescence erect, 1.2–2 m high; peduncle stout, with up to 8-branches, the lower branches rebranching; branches ascending, subtended by lanceolate, often leafy bracts to 5 cm long. Racemes 20–40 × 7 cm, cylindric, ± laxly flowered; bracts 8–15 × 3 mm, lanceolate-acuminate; pedicels 5–8 mm long, distinctly shorter than the bracts. Perianth pale brick-red, 27–30 mm long, c. 8 mm in diameter across the ovary, constricted just above then widening and becoming slightly decurved, cylindric-trigonous; outer segments free for less than one-third, with pale margins above, and with spreading tips. Stamens and stigma slightly exserted. Capsule c. 33 × 14 mm, oblong-ovoid, yellowish-grey. Seeds c. 3.5 × 7.5 mm, black with grey, sparsely spotted wings.
