plant caulescent pendant usually up to 200 mm long. leaves many, wide rosulate, up to 100 mm long, rigid, including sheath barely 25 mm wide, narrowed into sharp tip, whole rusty scaled; floral stem shorter than leaves, densely scaled, covered with ovate-lanceolate bracts. inflorescence many-flowered, very densely paniculate, the same length or a bit shorter than leaves, usually up 20 flowers in 1–3-branched panicle covered by primary bracts, primary bracts prominent, elliptic, acute, dorsally densely scaled; floral bracts ca 5 mm apart, outside bright red, much longer than calyx, suberect, elliptic, acute, up 25 mm long, not carinate, covering the calyx. flowers up 25 mm long, with petals somewhat free, outside glabrous, almost elliptic, widely acute, up to 15 mm long, bright red, somewhat rhombic, obtuse, at full bloom campanulate. stamens: anther reach ca one half of petals. pistil: style elongate. fruits brown up to 15 mm long; seeds brown, oblong, tiny.Edited from : Acta Mus. Richn.. (protologue) .