Decumbent subshrubs, to 6 dm. tall. Leaves alternate, spiral, very variable in shape, narrowly lanceolate to broadly obovate, villous-tomentose, 5 to 15 cm. long, 3 to 10 cm. wide. Pseudostipules absent. Flowers cauliflorous, borne near the soil in inconspicuous short racemes, ca. 5 cm. long along the curved axis, brownish marked with purple, the utricle narrow, thence widening into a gibbous sac, the limb sharply reflexed on the utricle, the tube reduced to a constriction of the utricle. Gynostemium of 6 closely connate styles, capitate. Fruit cylindric, ca. 3 cm. long, 1 cm. wide, dehiscing api-cally. Seeds several, pyramidal, grooved, ca. 4 mm. wide.
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