Plant 4-8 in. high, branching at the base; branches decumbent, somewhat harshly and thinly pubescent, chiefly along one side; leaves (including the 1-1 1/2 lin. long petiole) 1/2-1 1/2 in. long, 1 1/2-4 1/2 lin. broad, linear-attenuate, linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, acute, truncate or slightly hastate at the base, glabrous on both sides or with a few short stiff hairs on the midrib beneath; umbel solitary on each branch, terminal, erect, 4-8-flowered; peduncle 1-3 in. long; bracts 1 1/2-3 lin. long, subulate or filiform; pedicels 1/2-3/4 in. long, puberulous or subscabrous down one side; sepals 2 lin. long, 3/4 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, with a few spreading hairs on the back; corolla-lobes very spreading, 4 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, glabrous on the back, with a very minute papillate-puberulous or velvet-like surface on the inner face, apparently pale purplish; corona-lobes arising close to the base of the staminal column and not overtopping it, 2-2 1/2 lin. long, nearly 1 lin. broad across the side, erect, complicate-cucullate, with infolded margins, narrowed into the column at the base, obliquely and sinuously subtruncate at the top, the dorsal subobtuse apex being very slightly produced, with a transverse shelf-like flap within the cavity above the middle; staminal column 2 lin. long.
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Perennial, geophytic, decumbent herb, 80-200 mm long. Stems 1-4. Leaves broadly ovate to linear lanceolate, 12-48 x 3-10 mm, base auriculate, apex acute, hastate; petioles 2-3 mm long. Inflorescences corymbose umbellate, 5-8-flowered; peduncle 25-50 mm long. Flowers greeny mauve or light purple, tinged white. Corolla saucer-shaped; lobes ovate to lanceolate, 3-5(8-9) x 2.5-4.0 mm. Staminal column ± 4 mm high, not stipitate. Corona: lobes saccate-columnar, ± 4 mm high, 3-4 mm wide, upper proximal ends blunt, level with style-stigma-apex, upper margin slightly obliquely truncate, distal end blunt; keel gently curved; sinus covered with a sheet of tissue at distal end.
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