Slender creeping succulent perennial arising from cluster of swollen fusiform roots. Shoots usually several from rootstock, slightly fleshy, trailing on sand to 0.5 m, 2-3 mm thick, not twining, glabrous, green with scattered purple spots; leaves 15-30 x 7-15 mm, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute, flat, slightly fleshy, glabrous, green suffused with red above and green below, with petiole 6-10 mm long. Inflorescence glabrous, 1-flowered, without peduncle, with single small bract at base;pedicel 9-13 x ± 1 mm, green suffused with purple, ascending; sepals ± 4 mm long, 1 mm broad at base. Corolla tubular with lobes remaining fused at tips, ± 35 mm long; outside purplish red-veined on white towards mouth of tube with white patch at base, glabrous; inside maroon in tube, on lobes pinkish white irregularly mottled and veined with purple on lower half changing abruptly to dark purple-brown patch then becoming pale purple-brown above, with purple-brown cilia ± 1.5 mm long along margins of lobes and otherwise glabrous; tube 20-22 mm long, with basal inflation ± 6 x 7 mm and slightly longitudinally wrinkled inside, abruptly narrowing to 3 mm diam. then widening gradually to ± 12 mm at mouth; lobes ± 10 mm long, tightly folded longitudinally except right at base, 3 mm broad in lower half narrowing to 1 mm in upper half. Corona ± 4 x 4 mm, without basal stipe; outer lobes ± 2 mm tall, erect, notched in middle to one third into two ± obtusely deltate lobules, translucent with dark purple-brown margins and yellow near base, with many straight white hairs < 1 mm long along margins; inner lobes ± 3.5 mm long, ± 0.7 mm broad in middle narrowing near tip, adpressed to backs of anthers then rising together in column over centre of gynostegium, yellow, obtuse, glabrous. Follicles and seed unknown.
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