plant growing on rocks, leaves forming a dense rosette, ligulate, ssub erect or recurved towards the tip, forming a wide funnel shaped utriculum at the base. leaves: sheath oblong elliptic, 15–20 cm long, ca 10 cm wide, greenish towards the top, brown towards the base, both sides dense brown lepidote; blade linear lanceolate, 17–25 mm long, ca 5–6 cm wide, glaucous or purple especially towards the tip, both sides with dense and minute white lepidote or white chalky, margins red, the tip acute apiculate, tip curved, peduncle 35–50 cm long, 8–12 mm diam., green, glabrous, thick rigid, near the base erect but abruptly deflexed above the middle, exceeding the leaves; peduncle bracts the bottom ones leaflike, others ovate triangular, tip acute and apiculate- recurvate, both sides inconspicuous white lepidote and white chalky, green or purple, equalling the internodes or frequently exceeding them, inflorescence compound or rarely simple, very laxly once-branched, sub erect or erect, 20–35 cm long, much exceeding the height of the leaves; primary bracts similar to the peduncle bracts but shorter, 2–3 cm long, from the base 1–3 sterile bracts, branches 2–3, sub erect all divaricate, 20–30 (–40) cm long, its base 8–15 cm long, barely shorter than the raceme and with 1–3 sterile bracts; racemes at anthesis 15–20 (–30) cm long, 10–15 flowered, near the base lax, and denser towards the tip, rachis flexuous, glabrous, green, thick, floral bract sub orbicular, obtuse, gibbous, not keeled, all the way much dark purple, glabrous, 20–25 mm long, ca 30 mm wide, thick and fleshy, but membraneous margins near the base, distinctly shorter than the sepals, secund or almost secund with the flowers. flowers nocturnal, a little scented, 5 cm long, distichous but secund at anthesis, pedicel obconic, rigid, 13 mm long, near the tip ca 10 mm diam.,green, glabrous, sepal oblong, obtuse or emarginate, ca25 mm long, ca 18 mm wide, free, green or often dark purple, not keeled, thick and fleshy, glabrous, outside minute verrucose; petals obovate, tip emarginate, 35–40 mm long, near the tip 20 mm wide, pale yellow, the tip spreading at anthesis, free, 2 long obovate ligules with irregular toothed tips about 10 mm above the base. stamens included, filament plicate after anthesis, complanate, adnate to the petal for 7mm, free from the sepals, anthers sublinear, ca 8 mm long, base arrow shaped, tip obtuse, dorsifixed near the base, style a little longer than the anthers, ovules stipitate, long caudate.Edited from : Bradea. .