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Perennial, geophytic herb, 500-1500 mm high. Stems branched in the inflorescence. Leaves opposite, longer or shorter than internodes, blade 20-75 x 0.5-2.0 mm, upper leaf surface appressed-pubescent or glabrous, lower surface glabrous, midrib pilose. Inflorescence 6-12-flowered. Flowers: pedicels 2-10 mm long; corolla spreading at anthesis, dull purplish red outside, cream-coloured or yellowish inside, lobes 2-3 mm long, dorsal surface pilose, ventral surface pubescent, long-pilose around periphery and at tip; corona whitish with purple streaks, basal lobe 0.7-1.0 mm high with scale-like, 3-toothed apex (central tooth longest) and faint dorsal horizontal ridge, ventral process erect, short to long. Pollinia 0.3-0.5 mm long, germination zone distinct; corpuscle 0.1-0.3 mm long. Flowering time Oct.-Feb. Fruit 50-60 mm long, densely pubescent.
Perennial, geophytic herb, 0.5-1.4 m high. Stems almost always branched in inflorescence. Leaves opposite, longer or shorter than internodes; blade 20-75 x 0.5-2.0 mm, upper leaf surface appressed-pubescent or glabrous. Flowers: inflorescences 6-12-flowered; corona whitish, with purple streaks; corolla spreading at anthesis, lobes 2-3 mm long, pubescent inside and long-pilose around periphery and especially at tip, dull purplish red outside, creamy or yellowish inside; Oct.-Feb.
Perennial herb, 0.5-1.4 m high. Leaves opposite, upper leaf surface appressed-pubescent or glabrous. Corolla lobes 2-3 mm long, pubescent inside and long-pilose round periphery and especially at tip. Flowers dull purplish red outside, creamy or yellowish inside; corona whitish with purple streaks.
An annual herb. It grows 40 cm high. It grows from a woody rootstock and can keep growing from year to year.
Similar to the last (Aspidoglossum angustissimum)
Flowers dull purplish
