Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Shrub.

Stems: Stems woody, prostrate, 1.5–2.5 dm long, leafy in upper ½.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Blades linear, 7–15 cm long, 0.4–0.7 cm wide. Apex acuminate. Surfaces glabrous. Margins entire to minutely callose–denticulate, flat or revolute. Sessile or subsessile. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in inflorescences unbranched, 10–15 cm long, glabrous, pedicels 12–18 mm long, bracts filiform, 2–7 mm long; hypanthium obconical, 2–3 mm long. Flowers bisexual (perfect). Calyx 5-lobed, lobes subulate to linear, 1–2.5 mm long, sepals connate, tube adnate to ovary. Corolla zygomorphic, dorsally cleft almost to base, magenta, 15-18 mm long, 4-5 mm wide, glabrous, the lobes spirally revolute, tube suberect. Stamens 5, alternate with corolla lobes; staminal column glabrous; anthers glabrous, the lower 2 with apical tufts of white hairs, dithecal, opening by longitudinal slits, coherent but separating after anthesis or connate and forming a tube into which pollen is shed; filaments distinct or connate above, attached to the epigynous nectary disk or to base of corolla, rarely adnate to corolla tube. Ovary inferior, 2-celled, often crowned with an annular nectary disk; ovule placentation axile, or when 1-celled with 2 parietal placentas; stigmas wet or dry, 2-lobed, appressed and nonreceptive as the style grows through the anther tube, pushing out the pollen, after which the stigmas spread apart and become receptive.

Fruit: Capsules unknown. Seeds unknown.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Formerly occurring on dry; exposed slopes in mesic forest.

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