sentences:  Rosulate, spreading leaves are 80—100 mm long with elliptic, brown leaf sheaths, to 9 x 6 cm wide; leaf blades are ligulate, acuminate, 35—50 mm wide.Scape is red, curved, about 5 mm in diameter with subfoliaceous, erect, densely imbricate bracts.Inflorescence is laxly bipinnate, about 40—50 x 15—20 cm; primary bracts are green and red, ovate, acuminate, 4—8 cm long; spikes are ascending, subdensely ellipsoid, 10—14 cm long, 40—45 mm in diameter, 9—15-flowered.