Plant erect to spreading, glabrous except ovary and axes of inflorescence shortly brown-tomentose; epicortical runners present. Leaves ovate to nearly orbicular, rounded or rarely acute; lamina 5-9 cm long, 3-5 cm wide, contracted at base into petiole 3-5 mm long. Inflorescence a pedunculate 2-flowered umbel; peduncle robust, 1-4 mm long; rays of umbel 3-4 mm long; bracts nearly orbicular, 2 mm long, concave. Calyx entire, 0.5 mm long. Corolla in mature bud robust, c. 40 mm long, more or less 6-ribbed, clavate, red or rarely yellow. Anthers 4-5 mm long, c. 1/2 length of free part of filament. Fruit nearly globose, 8 mm long, contracted at apex.
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