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Perennial herb, suckering to form large dense groups of plants with suckers to 50 cm long, acaulescent. Leaves in a dense rosette, spreading-erect with apices slightly recurved; lamina 40–60 cm long, 8–11 cm wide at the base, lanceolate-attenuate, greyish-green, pink-tinged in dry conditions, without spots; margin cartilaginous with firm deltoid pale brown-tipped teeth c. 2 mm long and 5–10 mm apart. Inflorescences 1–2, erect to 1.75 m high; peduncle 5–12-branched, the lowest branches occasionally rebranched; branches oblique to horizontally spreading, subtended by deltoid scarious bracts to 10 × 12 mm. Racemes 30–40 × 3 cm, ± densely flowered, ± horizontal with the flowers secund along the upper side of the rhachis; bracts 4–6 × 3–4 mm, ovate, papery, whitish; pedicels 3–4 mm long. Perianth dull-red with a bloom, and ivory to yellowish towards the mouth, 22–25 mm long, 5–6 mm in diameter across the ovary, clavate and widening to c. 10 mm in diameter, then narrowing slightly at the mouth; outer segments free for c. two-thirds with tips not recurved; buds almost globose. Stamens and stigma exserted 10–12 mm; stamens with dark purple filaments and orange anthers, stigma whitish. Capsule and seeds not seen.