Perennial herbs 40-50 cm tall; stems fistulose, 2-5 mm in diameter, glabrate throughout or sparingly puberulous above. Principal cauline leaves with blades drying thinly membranous, usually elliptic to vaguely oblong-elliptic, apically acute to acuminate, basally acutely tapering, 12-22 cm long, 5.0-7.8 cm wide, marginally indistinctly serrulate to denticulate, the teeth projecting 0.1-0.2 mm from the blade and spaced 3-7(-9) mm apart, glabrous above and beneath or sparingly strigillose on the elevated veins beneath; petioles 1-2.5 cm long, gla-brous. Inflorescences terminal, corymbiform or umbellate racemes 5-8 cm long apparently with few (4-8) flowers. Flowers 4.5-5.5 cm long; peduncle incon-spicuously hirsutulous; bracts several, subsessile, 2-3 cm long; pedicels hirsutu-bous, 5-10 mm long, the trichomes 0.1-0.2 mm long; bractlets paired, 0.8-1.0 mm long 2-5 mm from the pedicel base. Flowers with the hypanthium densely but microscopically granular-spiculate, campanulate, 2.5-3.5 mm high, 4-6 mm in diameter at anthesis; calyx lobes linear, inconspicuously ciliate with trichomes less than 0.1 mm long, entire to inconspicuously toothed, 4-6 mm long, 1.0-1.5 mm wide, erect; corolla tube red, ca. 3.5 cm long, strongly bent just above the middle to form an angle of 80?-90?, in the basal half 3-4 mm in diameter, strongly flaring above to 8-11 mm in diameter, densely though inconspicuously beset externally with short, conical protuberances; corolla lobes falcate or narrowly triangular, 5-7 mm long, acute to acuminate, red and similar to the tubes in color; filament tube ca. 4.5 cm long, slightly exserted, glabrous, the anther tube 5-9 mm long, externally glabrous or sparsely pubescent, the lowermost anthers with a tri-angular white scale-appendage composed of concrescent trichomes ca. 3 mm long and internal to a fringe of straight, white, trichomes 1.0-1.2 mm long. Berries unknown.
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