Rootstock perennial, producing a cluster of somewhat succulent roots. Stems prostrate or rambling (not found twining), sometimes rooting at nodes, succulent, ±3.5 mm thick, glabrous, sometimes slightly mottled. Leaves petiolate; petiole ±7 mm long; blade somewhat succulent, broadly ovate-oblong to lanceolate, sometimes much reduced and appearing obsolete, up to 40 x 25 mm. Peduncles up to 15 mm long, spreading. Flowers 2-several in succession. Sepals narrowly lanceolate, 4-5 mm long, spreading, with ring of small scales round base of corolla. Corolla up to about 60 mm long, glabrous outside; tube ±35 mm long, with basal inflation ±14 mm long and slightly narrowed upwards, then abruptly spreading into a subglobose inflation 6-7 mm diam., without internal annulus between inflations, cylindric above and widening to ±15 mm at throat, with few downward-directed bulbous-based hairs from upper end, upper inflation longitudinally purple-blotched; corolla lobes linear-spathulate, 20-25 mm long, united at tips, slightly converging at middle, with margins strongly replicate, with long spreading hairs towards base and long purple, clavate, vibratile hairs towards apex, purplish. Corona with shortly tubular base; outer lobes 3 mm high, deeply 3-dentate, the middle tooth shortest; inner lobes incumbent-erect, linear, ±3 mm long.
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