Caudices simple or apically branched and cespitose, 1–5 × 1–3 cm, axillary branches absent. Leaves: rosettes 1–7, not in clumps, 10–25(–30)-leaved, 3–25 cm diam.; blade green, oblong-lanceolate, 4–30 × 0.5–4 cm, 1.5–6 mm thick, base 1–3 cm wide, apex acute to acuminate, surfaces not farinose, sometimes glaucous. Inflorescences: cyme mostly 2–3-branched, obpyramidal; branches not twisted (flowers on topside), simple or 1-times bifurcate, (5–16 cm diam.); cincinni 2–3, 2–20-flowered, circinate, 2–15(–25) cm; floral shoots 15–90(–120) × 0.3–1.2 cm; leaves 18–40, spreading to ascending, triangular-lanceolate to -ovate, 10–30(–50) × 3–18 mm, apex acute, in age straight and erect to spreading. Pedicels erect, not bent in fruit, 2–6(–12) mm. Flowers: calyx 4–7 × 5–8 mm; petals connate 1–2 mm, bright yellow or usually red or red-flushed or -marked abaxially, greenish to orange-yellow adaxially, 10–16 × 2.5–5 mm, apex acute, tips slightly outcurved; pistils connivent, erect. Unripe follicles erect. 2n = 68.
