Plants acaulescent, freely suckering; rosettes solitary or cespitose, 3.5-7.5 × 4-8.5 dm, somewhat open to dense. Leaves ascending to erect, 7-65 × 4-20 cm; blade glaucous-gray to light green, not cross-zoned, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate or broadly ovate, rigid, adaxially nearly plane to concave toward apex, abaxially convex; margins straight or undulate, rarely unarmed, teeth single, well defined, 3-7(-8) mm, 1-3 cm apart; apical spine dark brown to gray, subulate or acicular, 1.5-4 cm. Scape (2-)3-6 m. Inflorescences broadly paniculate, somewhat open to dense, not bulbiferous; bracts persistent, triangular, 3-10 cm; lateral branches (7-)10-36, horizontal to slightly ascending, comprising distal 1/2 of inflorescence, longer than 10 cm. Flowers 27-48 per cluster, erect, 4.3-8.1 cm; perianth pink to red or red to orange in bud, yellow to yellowish green at anthesis, tube campanulate, 6-18 × 11-21 mm, limb lobes erect to ascending, unequal, 13-27 mm; stamens long-exserted; filaments inserted (sometimes irregularly) above mid perianth tube to just below rim, erect, yellow or green, 3.5-5.8 cm; anthers yellow, 12-34 mm; ovary (2-)3-4.5 (-4.8) cm, neck slightly constricted, 4-9 mm. Capsules short-pedicellate, ovoid or oblong to obovoid, 2.5-5 cm, apex beaked. Seeds 7-8 mm.