Cormous geophyte up to 100cm. Leaves linear, strap-like, loosely twisted, without a midrib, 10mm wide. Large bowl-shaped flowers, bright orange, in open clusters, borne on a branched stem. Bracts leathery and fibrotic. After fire it may be seen in spectacular sheets of colour.

After: Neville Pillans (1884-1964), South African botanist and curator of the Bolus Herbarium.

After: R. Templeman, seedsman in the Cape Town Botanical Garden.