Description

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Growth Form: Erect to ascending subshrubs 3–10 dm tall

Stems: Stems few-branched, glabrous, becoming sparsely then moderately glandular-puberulent in the inflorescence, the internodes purple

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Flowers: Inflorescence terminal, with 27–70 flowers, 20–48 cm long, diffuse, flowers widely spaced, branches spreading, progressively more densely puberulent to apex, the hairs straight, erect, 0.1–0.35 mm long; bracts subulate, the lowermost of the central axis elliptic-lanceolate, as green as the leaves, recurved and often twisted, the lower ones 30–45 mm long, those of the branches and flowers 5–18 mm long; pedicels (7–) 10–23 mm long, elongating slightly in fruit, slightly asymmetrically flattened. Flowers hermaphroditic. Sepals 4.3–4.8 mm long, lanceolate, green, opaque, strongly reflexed and convex in the proximal 1/4, producing a small transverse bulge, the distal part shallowly concave, oriented ca. 40° to 80° angle to the pedicel, glandular-puberulent, a few of the hairs sometimes non-glandular, margins scarious, ciliate, apex long-attenuate. Nectary base 0.6–0.9 mm long, dark yellow, the nectary shaft 3–4.5 mm long, gently recurved, at 90° to the axis, apex deeply bifid, sometimes divided nearly to the base. Stamens 10; filaments dimorphic, the antisepalous whorl 7.5 mm long, the alternate whorl 5.3–5.8 mm long; anthers 0.75–0.85 mm long, subequal, pale yellow. Styles 3.

Fruit: Capsules 3.1–3.8 mm long; narrowly ovoid. Seeds ca. 1.3 mm long; orbicular-reniform; compressed; the surface rugose.

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