leaves to 10 in a slenderly funnelform rosette, pale green, obscurely spotted, to 4 dm long; sheath large, elliptic, dark reddish above; blade ligulate, broadly rounded, minutely apiculate, to 6 cm wide, finely serrulate. inflorescence: peduncle sub-erect, slender, glabrous, shorter than the leaves; peduncle bracts large, elliptic, acute, bright rose; fertile part suberect, few-flowered, usually with a single one-flowered branch at base and elsewhere simple, to 12 cm long, 8 cm in diameter, glabrous; floral bracts minute, triangular. flowers sessile, to 70 mm long; sepals oblong, emarginate and without a mucro, 25 mm long, green except the dark blue apex; petals to 50 mm long, never spiral, the part above the sepals dark blue, bearing 2 coarsely serrate scales at base. stamens slightly shorter than the petals. pistil: ovary cylindric, 20 mm long, sulcate, pale green.Edited from : Butcher .